Inside Labour | The latest national budget, generally lauded by business, did nothing to halt the ongoing shedding of jobs or the fact that ever more families are being thrown into abject poverty, writes Terry Bell
The situation has probably been made worse by the latest round of stage 6 load shedding, a fact that should be revealed in the Quarterly Labour Force Survey, which is scheduled for publication on May 16.
These are the workers of the future and what is happening to them is seriously harmful. The proof of the individual human cost will be in the plentiful evidence of the damage that will almost certainly be wrought in social, economic and, often, political terms.If and when the current energy crisis is overcome and if progress is to be made, there will be a desperate need for capable and confident workers who are able to think critically.
Against this background, the budget effectively cut spending on childcare, education and poverty relief. The foster care grant was increased by 5.6% to R1 130, at a time when food price inflation breached 13%. But the current budget allocation for ECD is R36.5 billion less than the R42 billion minimum recommended by the World Bank report, which also points out that “a substantial increase in funding for the ECD system is inevitable if the government’s priorities of reduced malnutrition and improved early learning are to be achieved”.
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