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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Plea to adopt India’s rural employment guarantee scheme in South Africa

Plea to adopt India’s rural employment guarantee scheme in South Africa

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published Published on Jun 8, 2011   modified Modified on Jun 8, 2011
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The head of South Africa’s powerful federation of trade unions has asked the government to consider replicating the model of India’s rural employment guarantee scheme MNERGA to address the huge unemployment problem in the country.

Mr Zwelinzima Vavi, head of the powerful Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu), believes that the model used in India could also work in South Africa.

Speaking at a University of Johannesburg seminar around constitutional employment guarantees in South Africa, Mr Vavi called the huge unemployment figures in the country, especially among youth “a ticking time-bomb’’.

He said the South African constitution affirmed that “everyone has the right to fair labour practices” but unlike its Indian counterpart, did not specifically guarantee the right to work.

The Indian constitution commits the state “to make effective provision for securing the right to work’’.

The Indian scheme, which became law in 2005, provides a legal guarantee for 100 days of employment every financial year to adult members of any rural household willing to do public work-related unskilled manual work at a statutory minimum wage.

The (Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee) Act was introduced to assist mainly semi or unskilled people living in rural India, many of them below the poverty line.

“(MNREGA) has reduced hunger, raised self-esteem, advanced women, strengthened civil society, and — despite problems with fraud which we in SA are unfortunately also familiar with — introduced new mechanisms to ensure transparency and accountability,” he said.

The Hindu Business Line, 8 June, 2011, http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/industry-and-economy/economy/article2086981.ece


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