This is fiction. This is a story about how I would try to do the impossible, if it fell to me to do it, instead of waiting for someone to do it for all of us.
Some characters are based on real people, my imagination with a bit of public persona mixed in. I wish that I could know them. But they certainly haven't said or done anything I've attributed to my imaginary versions of them. I have no idea whether they'd agree.
Most of the numbers used are real, certainly all the government-spend numbers, which come from Stats SA for 2015/16 or 2016/17, when available. Some others are thumb-sucked because there is just no data available, or the underlying stats are purposely obfuscated, hidden, or not reported by the state organs in question.
The story has had hardly any revision, never mind editing or polishing.
If you like it enough to want someone else to read it, please feel free to share it.
If you want to comment on something, I'd welcome it: [at]IBelieveInSA on Twitter, or RadicalUBI[at]gmail.com.
And yes, I do believe that this can be done.
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General FictionAn improbable candidate from a minority party is elected president of South Africa. With little support, she must rally everyone else to her cause: Universal Basic Income. And no personal income tax. During the quest to find (or save) the money, Sou...
