The government has been granted leave to appeal a high court decision that made the social relief of distress (SRD) grant permanent and expanded its beneficiaries to nearly 20-million at a cost of more than R60bn a year.

The National Treasury and the department of social development will now have to convince the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) that the high court erred in its February ruling...

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