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The latest Household Affordability Index shows that the average cost of the Household Food Basket increased once more. Pietermaritzburg Economic Justice & Dignity Group ‘s latest Household Affordability Index states that families are now paying an average of almost R200 extra per basket since it first began tracking the data five months ago.

“The average cost of the Household Food Basket in January 2021 is now at its highest level since the start of the expanded collection in September 2020,” says Mervyn Abrahams, Programme Coordinator at PMBEJD.

Guests:

Mervyn Abrahams

About the Household Affordability Index

 The Household Food Basket in the Household Affordability Index is a new basket and has been designed together with women living on low incomes in Johannesburg (Soweto, Alexandra, Tembisa and Hillbrow), Cape Town (Gugulethu, Philippi, Khayelitsha, Delft, Dunoon), Durban (KwaMashu, Umlazi, Isipingo, Durban CBD, and Mtubatuba), and Springbok (in the Northern Cape), and Pietermaritzburg. It includes the foods and the volumes of these foods which women living in a family of seven members (an average low-income household size) tell us they typically try and secure each month. The basket was designed through a pilot project which ran from April 2020 to August 2020. It cannot however be considered the basket for every family living on a low income in each area and for all areas covered. It is however considered a reasonable proxy for a food basket which women identified as including the most important typical foods which most households try and buy each month, given affordability constraints. The Household Food Basket is not nutritionally complete.

M4Jam CEO Georgie Midgley Is My Guest

Gig technology company, M4Jam, which provides an important platform for struggling South Africans to make an income by performing temporary, part-time work in a time of retrenchments and downscaling, recently surveyed 3000 of its jobbers about their feelings toward the rollout of Covid-19 vaccines in the country.

South Africans remain broadly fearful of the ongoing impact of the virus on their livelihoods. Despite the reprieve from lockdown and economic devastation, the rollout of vaccines may offer, a recent M4Jam survey found that a lack of trust in both the vaccines themselves and the government’s handling of the rollout is preventing people from seeing light at the end of the tunnel.

Several vaccines in current use are developed from the cells of aborted babies. Can I Take a Vaccine Made from Aborted Babies? 

How common are practices of treatments on cells derived from fetal tissue.  My guests explains the differences between the Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines and the effectiveness of Ivermectin though it is currently a banned product in South Africa. 

READ MORE ON: SAHPRA’S GUIDANCE ON THE USE OF IVERMECTIN IN THE PROPHYLAXIS OR TREATMENT OF COVID-19. 

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 Dr. Martin Gill     

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Makhosi Mngadi  Marketing and public Relations for Bartering SA.

Bartering is the exchange of goods and services between two or more parties without the use of money. It is the oldest form of commerce. Individuals and companies barter goods and services between each other based on equivalent estimates of prices and goods.

Regenesys, the leadilng international business school in online education with campuses in South Africa, India and Nigeria, in collaboration with the Regenesys Foundation and MyWealth Investments has unlocked R1 billion to support the tertiary education of 5 000 deserving students.

My Guest is Celeste Le Roux - named finalist in three categories at Standard Bank Top Women Awards. 

The Standard Bank Top Women Awards honors those, whose unfailing vision and innovative leadership have positively impacted women in South Africa. In response to the unprecedented global pandemic, the awards have moved to become completely virtual.

React Training College promises to revolutionize the way aspiring skilled tradesmen are trained. It is React24’s dream to empower construction professionals to become masterful artisans in the plumbing trade, now made possible as they opened the doors to the React Training College located in Parow, Western Cape.

In this episode, we chat about this and more.

A gig economy is a free market system in which temporary positions are common and organizations hire independent workers for short-term commitments

My Guest is M4JAM CEO Georgie Midgley. The company is a platform for Gigs., Helps Jobbers and in this discussion we talk touch on the latest company providing training on their platform for gigs. 

M4JAM Is Gig tech Company

Jarette Petzer is the guest. Founder of M1m

On Saturday 5th September 2020 tens of thousands took to the streets to show solidarity against crime & corruption, poverty & inequality, SA’s economic downfall and many other issues. 

The Move One Million event signified the official launch of Move One Million (M1M). The movement, founded in July 2020 by Jarette Petzer and Joanita van Wyk from #ImStaying, is a call for all South Africans to stop being complacent and take up active citizenry in a peaceful, united manner.

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