Government has missed a golden opportunity to mobilise 10 million unemployed people by not making the R350 Covid-19 special grant conditional on performing community service.
Only a truly crazy and suicidal ruling party would cancel a R350 grant to 10 million unemployed voters a few months before elections in a democratic country. The announcement by President Cyril Ramaphosa that all unemployed South Africans would receive a R350 basic income grant to mitigate the vicious effects of Covid-19 was historic indeed. Now every South African who is not in a job receives a grant from the government. Good.
The implication […]
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