R350 grant payout is peanuts?
R350 grant payout is peanuts? By Blessing Mhlanga While President Cyril Ramaphosa and his government are doing their level best to serve the people of South Africa during the pandemic of Covid-19, some have chosen to be ungrateful for their priceless efforts. Among other efforts, the government has put in place about R50 billion to address the hunger, poverty and food insecurity catastrophes for the unemployed, by issuing the R350 per month grant for the next six months. In response, some took to Twitter to express their dissatisfaction over the grant payment, citing that it is little and should have been higher based on one's academic qualification. As such Twitter went buzzing with the #R350 trend, which saw many throwing complaints and displeasure. In case you didn't know, there's about 6.7 million unemployed individuals in South Africa excluding 3 million discouraged job seekers. So that increases the number to close to 10 million people looking forward to ...

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