Black Sash fights the government to keep Covid grants alive
The organisation wants the extra child-care allowance of R500 per carer to remain in place, saying the economy is still too weak for people to be deprived of the payment
30 October 2020 - 06:00
The SA Social Security Agency (Sassa), without a trace of irony, used the hashtag #SassaCares when it tweeted this week that all but one Covid-19 relief grant would come to an end this month.
Maybe the tone-deaf agency wasn’t expecting a fight. If so, it miscalculated...
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