Cosatu wants relief grant made permanent and increased to R624 in line with food poverty line

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“The reinstatement of the R350 grant is a critical poverty alleviation intervention. However, its recipients will not miraculously find work when it ends on April 1, 2022,' Cosatu’s parliamentary co-ordinator Matthew Parks said.

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The unrest wreaked havoc in parts of Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal. It claimed more than 300 lives and resulted in extensive damage to infrastructure, including 161 malls, 11 warehouses, eight factories, 200 shopping centres and 11 liquor outlets. About 3,000 stores were looted. A sum of R26.7bn is sought in line with President Cyril Ramaphosa's announcement to reintroduce the R350 social relief of distress grant until the end of March 2022.

“The reinstatement of the R350 grant is a critical poverty alleviation intervention. However, its recipients will not miraculously find work when it ends on April 1, 2022. It is proposed that R700m be allocated to the SA National Defence Force for the deployment of military personnel to assist the police to restore order.

“Bases and material have been allowed to deteriorate to alarming levels. Corruption and wasteful expenditure are widespread. Military personnel are undertrained due to the shortage of funds,´" said Parks.

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If Cosatu as an alliance partner to the ANC can tell ANC to secure our borders and enforce the rule of law. Companies, farmers,restaurants,garages,construction etc employ S.Ans by the end of April more than half of the R350 recipients would be employed.

It would also be encouraging if the federation could persuade its office bearers and those of alliance partners to donate atleast a tenth of their monthly earnings to contribute to Basic Income Grant...that will show how caring workers leadership are..

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