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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. ....

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