With the vote all but finalised, it’s clear that 2024 SASSA grant beneficiaries have turned their backs on the ANC. And here’s why …
There’s very good reason why 2024 SASSA grant beneficiaries have turned their backs on the ruling party. Image: File/FotorThere’s very good reason why 2024 SASSA grant beneficiaries have turned their backs on the ruling party. Image: File/Fotor
For 2024 SASSA grant beneficiaries, you’d imagine that social-welfare policy would be a huge decider in who to vote for at thepoll. Now, with the final vote all but finalised , it’s clear that Mzansi’sDuring his electioneering, President Cyril Ramaphosa cautioned 2024 SASSA grant beneficiaries against straying away from the ANC. He insisted that thewere amongst the best in Africa and were helping alleviate poverty.
By studying voter behaviour since 2017, using a nationally representative sample across five surveys till 2023, the academics found that, “receiving a government grant did not influence a voters’ choice of which party to vote for.” This assertion before the election has clearly been born out in the current results.If every SASSA grant recipient voted for the ANC in 2024, it would have comfortably held onto its majority. Image: File.
Polls show that payment of SRD stipends to roughly 10-million youth has bought the ANC little loyalty. Image: Fileduring the COVID-19 pandemic could be when it all changed. Results from the surveys suggest that younger people receiving SRD showed no allegiance to the ruling party. The report calls SRD recipients ‘welfare outsiders’. If anything, the meagre) paid in mitigation of financial distress due to COVID appears to have pushed the youth further away from the ruling party.
That’s because, as the survey results suggest, “SRD monetary values are small, often below the food poverty line, therefore limiting their impact. Extraordinarily high unemployment, persistent poverty, poor service delivery from the ruling party have all led to a stagnant economy. Fear of losing a grant if a person voted for an opposition party was no longer a significant factor in voter choices in 2024,” concluded the study.
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