Social development minister Lindiwe Zulu says her department is pushing ahead with its bid to have the country pay a basic income grant to the unemployed.
Social development minister Lindiwe Zulu has asked National Treasury to extend the grant 29 April 2021 - 14:36 The Black Sash has called for the R350 Covid-19 grant to be extended until it is turned into a basic income guarantee. File photo. Image: South African Government via Twitter
The Black Sash says there is no rationale for the special Covid-19 social relief of distress (SRD) grant of R350 to be terminated.
“Many people have relied on the grant which kept them from starvation,” Black Sash national advocacy manager Hoodah Abrahams-Fayker said on Thursday.
She was addressing a media briefing on the eve of the termination of the SRD grants, which are set to expire on Friday.