Social grants benefit not only the recipients of those grants, but society as a whole, President Cyril Ramaphosa has said in his weekly newsletter. | gerbjan
Ramaphosa also said it was"one of the greatest achievements of our democratic society" that 18 million people were now receiving social grants.
"It is this right that has underpinned the progressive expansion of South Africa's social protection system over the past three decades. In 1999, just over 2.5 million people were receiving social grants. Today that number has increased to over 18 million people," Ramaphosa wrote. While some have criticised the increased number of people receiving social grants as an indication of government's failure to uplift people out of a situation where they need government assistance, Ramaphosa disputes this.Expanding the social wage is not simply an indication that more people need grants today than before, as some have tried to suggest. In the past, many of the poor, including working-age adults who are unemployed, simply did not receive any support.
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