R350 Social Relief Grant now extended to March next year – Ramaphosa

WENDY MOTHATA|

PRESIDENT Cyril Ramaphosa has announced that the Social Relief of Distress Grant (SRD) of R350 will be

extended until March next year.

The president was speaking during his State of the Nation Address (SONA) at the Cape Town Hall on Thursday evening.

“We will extend the R350 SRD Grant for one further year, to the end of March 2023,” said Ramaphosa

The SRD was first introduced in April 2021 and was scheduled to end in March 2022.

Ramaphosa said since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the SRD has provided support to more than 10 million unemployed South African.

“Since the onset of COVID-19, the Social Relief of Distress Grant has provided support to more than 10 million unemployed people who were most vulnerable to the impact of the pandemic,” he said.

Addressing a media last year, former Minister of Finance, Tito Mboweni said the reinstatement of the