The SASSA SRD Grant was set to increase in 2026, after the South African president Cyril Ramaphosa made a speach that the increase will benefit South Africans greatly.
Why It Is A BAD Idea
I stand to disagree with the fact that this would be beneficial for our people. Reason being the SASSA SRD Grant has been in motion for over six years now. And another thing is that not everyone qualifies for it, sometimes people get declined in an unecessary manner when trying to apply for this grant.
Their extensive monthly checks to see if people still qualify seem to be put in place to continue making the rich richer, and the poor even poorer.
What Could Be Done Instead
In South Africa there are more relief options than government jobs, the disabled get a grant, children get a grant and even the elderly which is okay for them, however you ask them to release jos in the government for the youth and the disadvantaged you won’t see that.
The solution to poverty that seems to linger in South Africa will not be destroyed just by increasing the SASSA SRD Grant, that would just rather increase the crime rate. I say this because we have seen stories of people being attacked by their partners for this SRD Grant which is merely R370.
In this country a stand has to be taken, a liberal fight against all the corruption because how is it possible that a grant gets an increase when there are zero jobs. That is food for thought.
SASSA SRD Grant alternatives
There are many things the government could be doing in place of the SRD Grant, things like making available such programmes whereby people can collect waste. In return collecting that waste they can get things like grocery voucers and hampers.
This would decrease the percentages of crime especially in this country, if an increase was to be put in place there would be a spike of killings and robberies because most people would target those who cannot defend themseves.
Initiatives like that would also make the nation become one reason being people could even come together as a nation and defeat things like pollution.