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The protest combined community-based including Reclaim the City, the Movement for Care, the Social Justice Coalition, the Housing Assembly, Singabalapha and Ndifuna Ukwazi, all in the spirit of demolishing the by-laws that they claim to be anti-poor. ....
. Activists affiliated with the #PayTheGrants campaign picketed outside Post Offices across the country on 30 April, demanding that the R350 Covid-19 Social Relief of Distress grant be extended and increased immediately. The grant was terminated as of 30 April. This means that no new applications will be processed from Friday. GroundUp visited Sassa in Bellville in Cape Town, as well as Post Offices in Nigel in Gauteng, Eldorado Park in Johannesburg, and Makhanda in Eastern Cape. In Bellville, about 20 activists picketed outside the Sassa office, where hundreds of beneficiaries were queuing for their disability grants. Beneficiary Yvonne Klaasen said that she hasn’t received her disability grant since December, even though she has tried to collect it every month. She was among those not in support of the picket because she claimed that people were “using and abusing” the R350 grant. ....
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 ....