SASSA latest: #PayTheGrants protesters gather at Bellville offices Protesters across the country have demanded that the SASSA COVID-19 SRD grant for the unemployed be extended and payments increased. Under the #PayTheGrant banner, dozens of people gathered outside SASSA offices in Bellville, Cape Town, on Friday afternoon to voice desperate calls for the Social Securities Agency to extend the payment deadline past today’s expiration date. Scores of protesters have gathered outside post offices all over the country on Friday demanding that the SASSA R350 COVID-19 Social Relief of Distress (SRD) grant be extended and increased immediately. SASSA SRD grant deadline not extended