Your fantastic article in Noseweek July 18 refers.

I think you have the key to what SA's biggest problem is, unemployment, abject poverty and hopelessness.
All the media hype of state capture etc does not solve this underlying desperate situation and is a disingenuous ploy by the media - forever in it only for their own aggrandizement - to present news that is completely useless and which acts as a smokescreen, behind which government appeases those fortunate enough to sit in a nice house and read all about it.

Please make the BASIC INCOME GRANT - BIG - a mission to table in Parliament. Presented the right way, it cannot be shot down; it will address the core problems, unlike the EFF "policy" and the ANC's fight for survival, both of which make zero difference to those tens of millions of citizens who are hungry, cold, have no hope and no resources.