File Image: Social grant recipients stand in a queue outside a post office. There is good news for beneficiaries of the Social Relief of Distress Grant (SRD) which will be extended beyond next month.
Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana announced the extension in his Budget Speech in the Cape Town City Hall yesterday.
The deputy chairperson of the organisation Pay the Grants, Elizabeth Raiters, has welcomed the extension.She, however, says unemployed persons need a more permanent solution than the grant.“That is actually very exciting news, but we would have actually appreciated it if they mentioned anything about the universal basic income grant, […]
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