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Africa-Press – South-Africa. <\/strong><\/span>President Cyril Ramaphosa also assured workers that their rights to collective bargaining and going on strike would still be protected.<\/p>\n

President Cyril Ramaphosa has told workers at Wednesday\u2019s May Day celebrations that the country is moving towards a universal basic income grant.<\/p>\n

He addressed thousands of Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), African National Congress (ANC) and South African Communist Party (SACP) supporters at Cape Town’s Athlone stadium.<\/p>\n

Ramaphosa also assured workers that their rights to collective bargaining and going on strike would still be protected.<\/p>\n

The Universal Basic Income is an unconditional monthly stipend that would see South Africans.<\/p>\n

While that grant has come under discussion in Parliament, it still hasn’t materialised like the R350 Social Relief of Distress (SRD) grant.<\/p>\n

Ramaphosa said workers asked for the SRD to be extended until the introduction of the Universal Basic Income.<\/p>\n

“It was you who said we want that to be extended until we get to a stage of having a basic income grant. And we are on the way to move in that direction.”<\/p>\n

Ramaphosa also assured workers they won\u2019t lose any of their hard-won rights.<\/p>\n

“Your collective bargaining rights are entrenched and are guaranteed so they will continue.”<\/p>\n

Ramaphosa said other policies advocated by unions like the National Health Insurance would soon come into effect.<\/p>\n

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