Black Consciousness Lens: Social Grants and Land Production for Sustainable Livelihoods in South Africa

Abstract

In the era of inflation, where the sustainability of social grants and issues on land expropriation are debated in various platforms. The paper assesses and highlights the significance of integrating social grants and land production programmes for sustainable livelihoods in South Africa. With interpretivism as its paradigm, it argues that social grants play a crucial role in addressing poverty among the people, although insufficient to cover their basic needs. It then posits a Sustainable Social Security Model (S3M) grounded in Ubuntu that postulates material changes, including land distribution and the implementation of self-sustenance programmes steeped in community-based resources as a supplementary mechanism to social grants.