How is it that President Ramaphosa has millions lying around (some have put the figure at $4-million in banknotes) on his farm in Limpopo, while in my village, Mahlathi, in the same province, people have been waiting for Social Relief of Distress grants...
For two months, President Ramaphosa’s “fellow South Africans” have been waiting for their R350 payments, which the president committed in his SONA address would be extended to at least March 2023.
In the last two months, I’ve heard from Community Policing Forum members in my community who say they don’t sleep at night. They told me about robberies in local shops and when I ask what was stolen, they report it’s usually cooking oil, rice and maize meal. Going to bed hungry and waking up knowing you will have nothing to eat again drives people to desperate acts.And it will drive more people to suicide when they have lost hope.
Withholding the SRD payments for two months is nothing but cruelty. But there is more cruelty waiting for us, thanks to National Treasury. #PayTheGrants shows us that the threshold to apply for the grant is dropping from R595 to R350. Hundreds of thousands of desperate people – people living in a state of disaster – will now be excluded from the grant when it’s finally paid.
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