During yesterday's SONA, President Cyril Ramaphosa said government is working to extend and improve the R350 social relief grant.
During yesterday’s SONA, President Cyril Ramaphosa assured South Africans that government will extend and improve the R350 Social Relief of Distress grant.State of the Nation Address
This is not all that surprising given the country is in a key national election year, and one of the areas that the president emphasised was that of the R350To that end, Ramaphosa said that more work will be done in order to increase the reach of these R350 grants. “These grants and subsidies do much more than give people what they need to live. They are an investment in the future. Social assistance has been shown to increase school enrolment and attendance, lower drop-out rates, and improve the pass rate,” he pointed out.has reached some of its highest percentages in recent years, there was little in terms of tangible actions that will be taken.
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