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Business Report writes that union federation Cosatu will picket outside Parliament on Thursday between 13:00 and 14:00 over the current debacle around welfare grants.
The Social Development Department and the SA Social Security Agency (Sassa) are scrambling to ensure that as many as 17 million people continue to receive their monthly grants. In a statement issued on Wednesday, Cosatu said it had waited at the gates of Parliament to hand over a memorandum to the Minister of Social Development Bathibile Dlamini on Sunday. “She did not respond. Cosatu then made an urgent plea to her to immediately confirm that the Sassa grants will be paid on April 1. Her silence has been deafening ever since.” Cosatu said it expected the minister on Thursday “to receive the memorandum in person to show respect to the voters.”
- Read this report in full at IOL News
- Read Cosatu’s press statement in this regard at Cosatu Today
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