News
May 09

Lowering of the SRD grants qualification threshold

Ditikeni shareholders continue to advocate for the rights of poor and disadvantaged people across the country. One such organization is The Black Sash, who has expressed its unhappiness with plans to lower the qualification threshold for the R350 Social Relief of Distress (SRD) grant.

 

Social Relief of Distress grant

Scores of people queuing for the R350 Covid-19 grant outside the Mdantsane Post Office in East London in January 2021. Archive photo: Nombulelo Damb犀利士
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