The R350 special grant to the most destitute will take up R36bn of SA’s 2023 budget. The Covid-19 SRD grant was introduced in 2020 as a temporary fix for financially distressed households and the unemployed poor during the pandemic, but has been extended since then. Image: Kimberly Mutandiro/GroundUp Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana may have sternly pronounced that the Covid-19 Social Relief of Distress (SRD) grant will be extended for only a year in his budget speech on Wednesday, but signals in his budget also point to it morphing into a more perennial feature in South Africa’s social welfare story.
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