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Plight of beneficiaries raised in a bid to extend Covid-19 distress grant after deadline By Shakirah Thebus Share Cape Town - The plight of domestic workers, farmworkers and informal traders, were raised in calls for the Covid-19 Social Relief of Distress (SRD) grant to be extended, proven as a lifeline during the pandemic. The Black Sash and #PayTheGrants hosted a virtual press conference on Thursday, concerning the SRD grant to come to an end today, Friday. The special R350 grant was one of the major Covid-19 mitigating measures in place, as the country entered into a hard lockdown, later e...

Social development minister Lindiwe Zulu has asked National Treasury to extend the grant 29 April 2021 - 14:36 The Black Sash has called for the R350 Covid-19 grant to be extended until it is turned into a basic income guarantee. File photo. Image: South African Government via Twitter The Black Sash says there is no rationale for the special Covid-19 social relief of distress (SRD) grant of R350 to be terminated. “Many people have relied on the grant which kept them from starvation,” Black Sash national advocacy manager Hoodah Abrahams-Fayker said on Thursday. She...

“I don’t think we [rural women] were on the agenda,” said Mawubuye Land Rights Movement activist Denia Jansen, referring to the devastating impact that the Covid-19 lockdown has had on South Africans.  A key challenge was the limited access to institutional support during lockdown, she said, sharing a view that emerged in a report released during 16 Days of Activism by the Women on Farms Project (WFP). Jansen has her ears close to the ground on matters related to gender-based violence in farming communities. Just last Sunday evening she tried to assist a woman who had been raped in McG...