President Cyril Ramaphosa and the NCOP chairperson Amos Masondo at the 2024 State of the Nation Address. Picture: Jairus Mmutle/GCIS President Cyril Ramaphosa has defended the country’s increasing social welfare bill, with over 25 million South Africans relying on the government for various social grants and announcing a further extension to the R350 social relief of distress grant for the unemployed.
As of January 2024, there were 18 million people on old age, child, disability and foster grants, while another nine million young people were recipients of the R350 grant, which was introduced during the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 as […]
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