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Mounting pressure to keep Covid-19 grant
By Vernon Mchunu
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DURBAN - CIVIC bodies and labour unions are today due to announce drastic moves that seek to bolster their campaign for the extension and increase of the Social Relief of Distress (SRD) grant.
The R350 grant, first announced in April last year when the effects of the Covid-19-related hard lockdown hit hard on livelihoods, is expected to end on Friday.
President Cyril Ramaphosa has extended it twice already, in July last year and later in January this year for a further three months.
Veteran civic organisation Black Sash and the #PayTheGrants advocacy group said in a joint statement that they would be joined by faith-based organisations and trade unions to announce major action in an attempt to pressure the government to keep and increase the grant.