Social Security Reform

The Taylor Committee reported in 2002 on a comprehensive framework for reform of all aspects of social security in South Africa, including retirement, healthcare, unemployment insurance and poverty relief. It is an important first document to understand the framework for reform. The Basic Income Grant is one of the only elements that is not currently being implemented.

Taylor Committee Report, 2002

•Department of Social Development (2002), Transforming the Present – Protecting the Future, Report of the Committee of Inquiry into a Comprehensive System of Social Security for South Africa, March 2002. [Warning: large file 6.8Mb]

The Taylor Report from 2002 was previously available on the old web-site of the Department of Social Development. It is currently difficult to access and is thus provided here as a service for researchers.

Retirement Reform in South Africa

Healthcare Reform in South Africa

Guest lecture at UCT August 2007 on the background to Social Security transformation

in South Africa.

Skweyiya Z. (2008) Debate on State of the Nation Address. Address by the Minister of Social Development, Dr Zola Skweyiya on the occasion of the debate on the President's

State of the Nation Address, Parliament, Cape Town. (11/2/2008).