BusinessLive reports that more than 3‚500 applications have been made for the R150m relief fund set up by the Department of Sports‚ Arts and Culture.  

The applicants can expect just more than R42‚000 per application.  The department said in a statement on Tuesday that applications had closed and added it would not extend the deadline that ended at midnight on Monday.  The Democratic Alliance (DA) had on Monday asked for an extension until after the national lockdown‚ indicating that there had been technical issues with the supplied e-mail address.  The department said in a statement:  “The department was not in a position to extend the deadline further due to the urgency of the situation.  This timeline takes into account that the funding is for a three-month period until the end of June 2020 … Extending the deadline to April 17 would seriously compromise this process as well as the timelines required for implementation.”

• Read the full original of the report in the above regard by David Isaacson at BusinessLive

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