{"id":59586,"date":"2024-01-15T17:04:04","date_gmt":"2024-01-15T17:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/28-million-people-rely-on-social-grants-ramaphosa-boasts-about-ancs-efforts-to-prevent-poverty"},"modified":"2024-01-15T17:26:34","modified_gmt":"2024-01-15T17:26:34","slug":"28-million-people-rely-on-social-grants-ramaphosa-boasts-about-ancs-efforts-to-prevent-poverty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/28-million-people-rely-on-social-grants-ramaphosa-boasts-about-ancs-efforts-to-prevent-poverty","title":{"rendered":"\u201828-million people rely on social grants\u2019: Ramaphosa boasts about ANC\u2019s efforts to prevent poverty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; South-Africa. <\/strong><\/span>A total of28-million South African citizens, or 47% of the population, rely on social grants.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"divVideoStepAdTop\"><\/a>ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa hailed the governing party\u2019s efforts to \u201ctackle poverty head on\u201d.He was referring to the monthly R350 social relief of distress grant government introduced in 2020 which about 10-million people receive and other social grants such as old age pension and child support grants from which 18-million people benefit.<\/p>\n<p>He said the party\u2019s approach to tackling poverty has been two-pronged: \u201cFirst through the social wage, which involves a range of social and economic interventions, including expanding access to quality basic services, and second through direct transfers to households in the form of social grants.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This year South Africans will head to the polls to vote for national and provincial governments.<\/p>\n<p>As part of campaigning, a week ago Ramaphosa threatened that the National Student Financial Aid Scheme ) and social grants were likely to disappear should the ruling party lose power. 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