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Social Relief of Distress Grant: State chooses austerit

The ANC government has said it cannot afford the continuation of the Social Relief of Distress (SRD) Grant. But the Constitution says the state must ‘within its available resources’ work to ‘progressively realise’ its duty to fulfil the constitutional right to social assistance. It is n.

Urgent calls to extend R350 social relief of distress grant and to increase it to R585

tock The Black Sash is leading an urgent call to extend the R350 Social Relief of Distress grant.    The grant is meant to tide poor people over during the Covid-19 pandemic, but is due to end on Friday.   A group of NGOs have now joined the call for the grant to be increased to at least R585, the current food poverty line.    The Black Sash is leading an urgent call for the extension of the R350 Social Relief of Distress Grant (SRD) which is due to end on Friday.    We know that tomorrow [Friday] the grants will be terminated unless something happens, said Shaeera Kalla of the #Paythegrants campaign during a press briefing.  

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