C19 People’s Coalition:

(Online) People’s Assembly, 21 April 2020: Food, Grants & the Economy

 

The objective of this Assembly was to provide a platform for the movements and progressive forces to highlight the dire reality facing the majority of people living in South Africa; what experiences on the ground tell us; to hear and amplify the proposals the Coalition’s Working Groups are calling for and get a first responses from the wider Coalition and public in general.

 

This first (Online) People’s Assembly was hosted and convened by the Economics and Food Working Groups:

 

Links to Proposals:

Food Working Group

1. Informal food system: traders, vendors & spazas
   

2.  The Right to Food 

3.  The Role of Food Corporates

4. Food Producers: Small-scale farmers, fishers & farm workers

 

Economists Working Group

1. Social Grants

2. Monetary Policy

3. Fiscal Policy

4. Industrial Policy