R350 may not seem like much, but is important to those in need

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R350 may not seem like much to many people, but the value of the Social relief of distress grant is obvious if one sees the queues waiting outside Pretoria’s central post office to claim it.

A long queue formed yesterday again at the post office on Church Square of people waiting to collect the grant intended for persons in dire material need during the Covid-19 pandemic.

SASSA received over five million applications for the grant in the first three months, including many chancers who did in fact have other sources of income. With the lockdown now in month six, needs and responsibilities have mounted and people are up early to get in line at this and other post offices holding onto their ID to claim the payments.

Mike Ledwaba said: “I prefer to come collect my grant here because the Post Offices in the Soshanguve township can have very long queues and it is sometimes too hot to spend the whole day in a line.

 

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Imagine queuing whole day for R350. The disrespect to our people

The Thieves stole all the money. I'm still waiting for R350 ..Now I'm rejected

Anything 4 ppl in need is important Y we are in need indeed.but this mediocrity operation of ruling party it is unacceptable.they use ppls need to give them sub-standard services.

You should see the poor 2 million taxpayers paying for this train wreck....

Yes but there unfortunate part is people are still not getting even those R350 even after being approved for over 3 months.

South Africans should have gotten 2500...

Unfortunately they stole it , now people are rejected

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