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Calls for R350 Covid-19 grant to be made permanent and increased to R585
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Johannesburg - Pressue is mounting on the government not to terminate the R350 Covid-19 social relief of distress grant and instead turn it into a permanent basic income grant.
The #PayTheGrants campaign, spearheaded by various civic organisations including Black Sash and the South African Domestic Service and Allied Workers Union, on Thursday announced protest action against the government’s intentions to terminate the grant.
While the grant was due to come to an end on Friday, Social Development Minister Lindiwe Zulu said she was waiting to hear from the Treasury to indicate if it could be extended.
Plight of beneficiaries raised in a bid to extend Covid-19 distress grant after deadline
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Cape Town - The plight of domestic workers, farmworkers and informal traders, were raised in calls for the Covid-19 Social Relief of Distress (SRD) grant to be extended, proven as a lifeline during the pandemic.
The Black Sash and #PayTheGrants hosted a virtual press conference on Thursday, concerning the SRD grant to come to an end today, Friday.
The special R350 grant was one of the major Covid-19 mitigating measures in place, as the country entered into a hard lockdown, later extended into 2021.
Black Sash to picket for extension of Covid-19 relief grant Updated
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Activist group Black Sash and community members are set to picket outside South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) offices across the country on Friday.
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This comes after the announcement by Sassa that the Covid-19 Social Relief Distress (SRD) grant is coming to an end on Friday.
Community activist General Alfred Moyo say they want the relief grant to continue until it is turned into a Basic Income Guarantee .
We demand an increase of this R350 to at least R585, and that should push us to and agitate communities for a fight for this grand to be made a permanent Basic Income Guarantee, says Moyo.
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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.