Public Protector warns on SA becoming a welfare state

Public Protector warns on SA becoming a welfare state

Public Protector, Advocate Kholeka Gcaleka, has sounded a warning about the potential of South Africa becoming a welfare state, with the ever increasing number of people who rely on social grants.

Gcaleka said in a country where millions of people depended on social grants , it leads to low economic growth.

She said South Africa could not be proud that millions of its people depended on the government’s social security system.Over 18 million people receive the old-age, disability, child support and foster care grants. Another eight million receive the R350 Social Relief of Distress (SRD) grant.The SRD grant was introduced in […]

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