Theoretically, many of the day labourers could have benefited from the COVID-19 Social Emergency Relief Grant of R350 per month that has been paid to the unemployed since President Ramaphosa's announcement on 21 April 2020. However, this payment came...
A new special COVID-19 grant, of R350 ($18) per month is introduced to benefit those “who are currently unemployed and do not receive any other form of social grant or UIF payment”. Unfortunately, the numbers announced don’t add up, and the President didn’t tell us how many peopl...
[59], who composed the majority of both of our cohorts. Indeed, in April 2020, South Africa’s government instituted both a series of existing grant top-ups in addition to a new Social Relief of Distress Grant of R350 ($21), which was offered to South Africans aged 18 and above who ...
This work was supported by the grant PD/BD/128402/2017 from Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) PhD Programme in Medicines and Pharmaceutical Innovation (i3DU). Credit author statement Inês Figueiredo-Nunes: Methodology, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing (Original Draft), Writ...