Should a court order that the state has breached its constitutional obligation by not increasing the Social Relief of Distress (SRD) grant to keep pace with annual inflation, it would have a knock ...

The National Treasury says it would be impractical for government to pledge additional funding for the Social Relief of Distress (SRD) grant. On Wednesday, the Gauteng High Court in Pretoria ...

The Gauteng High Court in Pretoria heard arguments regarding the Social Relief of Distress (SRD) grant on Tuesday. The Institute for Economic Justice (IEJ) and advocacy group #PayTheGrants are ...

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However, the agency responsible for the administration of the unemployment grant has come under fire. The Social Relief of Distress (SRD) Grant system has come under fire after two Stellenbosch ...

The students, Veer Gosai and Joel Cedras, found that their ID numbers were used to apply for the SRD grant, which led to a broader investigation into the fraudulent use of student IDs to access ...

IT students Veer Gosai (left) and Joel Cedras brief the Social Development committee about how they uncovered fraud in the SRD grant application system. Picture: Phando Jikelo/Parliament of RSA ...

Today, two Stellenbosch University students presented to the Portfolio Committee on Social Development the alleged wide-scale fraud within the Social Relief of Distress (SRD) grant system. The DA is ...

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Sassa provides financial assistance to vulnerable South Africans through various grants, including the Social Relief of Distress (SRD) grant. This article outlines the SRD grant payment amounts for ...

People are not getting their R370 Social Relief of Distress (SRD) grants because they struggle to get SMS links for a biometric identity verification. SASSA says beneficiaries with smart card IDs ...

Two first-year Computer Science students from Stellenbosch University, Joel Cedras and Veer Gosai, have uncovered serious flaws in the Social Relief of Distress (SRD) grant system run by the South ...