Long queues at Post Offices as activists picket for Covid-19 grant extension

Long queues at Post Offices as activists picket for Covid-19 grant extension

About 20 activists affiliated to the #PayTheGrants campaign picket outside SASSA in Bellville where hundreds of people also queued to collect their disability grants. The R350 Covid-19 Social Relief of Distress grant was terminated today. (Photo: Liezl Human) Less 162k ‘I do not even have money to go back home if I don’t get paid today. I am hungry’ says desperate beneficiary on final day of Social Relief of Distress grant.

First published by GroundUp .

Activists affiliated with the #PayTheGrants campaign picketed outside Post Offices across the country on 30 April, demanding that the R350 Covid-19 Social […]

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