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Budget protesters demand \u201ca decent life\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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Members of several social justice movements held a \u201cPeople\u2019s Budget Speak-Out\u201d outside Parliament ahead of the Budget speech on Wednesday. Photo: Ashraf Hendricks<\/p>\n

About 100 members of several social justice movements held a \u201cPeople\u2019s Budget Speak-Out\u201d outside Parliament on Tuesday. They called on Minister of Finance Enoch Godongwana to include a basic income grant in Wednesday\u2019s budget.<\/p>\n

The gathering was organised by Cry of the Xcluded and was supported by organisations including the People\u2019s Health Movement, Treatment Action Campaign and Amadoda Aqotho.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur communities are collapsing. There is no service delivery,\u201d said Madoda Cuphe, organiser for Cry of the Xcluded. Cuphe said there is money in the budget but services are not being delivered to \u201cthe right people\u201d and the government focuses only on the problems of the rich. He said that high crime rates in townships are because people don\u2019t have \u201coptions\u2019\u201d, and that jobs, music, sports and education are needed.<\/p>\n

People are being \u201cdenied a decent life because this government is not delivering the promises that they have made to us 30 years ago\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n

Cry of the Xcluded is demanding a \u201cliving wage\u201d of at least R12,500 a month compared to about the current minimum wage of R23.19 an hour (about R3,700 a month based on a 160-hour working month).<\/p>\n

\u201dWe want decent clinics \u2026 that will treat people with dignity,\u201d said Sindiswa Godwana of the People\u2019s Health Movement. \u201cPoor people are dying unnecessarily,\u201d she said, though the Constitution says everyone has a right to health. She says that they want the government to speed up the process of National Health Insurance (NHI).<\/p>\n

Amadoda Aqotho is a men\u2019s movement in Khayelitsha that focuses on gender based violence. Deputy Secretary Gcobani Ndumndum said that they were demanding a basic income grant of R1,500 a month. He said this would lower crime rates in communities.<\/p>\n

Outside Parliament, people sang struggle songs and held up banners stating \u201cEnd loadshedding\u201d and \u201cSafe and affordable public transport\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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