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The Department of Social Development (DSD) hopes to finalise the policy for a new Basic Income Support (BIS) grant by March 2027, getting it ready for implementation.

The BIS is the new social grant the government plans to use to replace the COVID-19 Social Relief of Distress grant, which has been extended far beyond its original intent.

The SRD grant was a R350 per month support grant, later lifted to R370, launched in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic to help qualifying South Africans weather the economic uncertainty at the time.

The department noted that the grant was only ever expected to be in effect for six months, but over 8 million recipients became dependent on the support.

The DSD characterised the billions spent on the grant as a “success” because it directly addressed poverty, noting that recipients mainly used the money to buy food, electricity, and clothing.

This, it said, then supported local economies.

“Research by multiple independent researchers also found the SRD grant to be well targeted and successful in reducing hunger, poverty and inequality while also enabling the participation of beneficiaries in job search and other economic activity,” it said.

Because of this, the national government, supported by the presidency, is moving to transform the SRD grant into a new Basic Income Support policy, which is currently being processed.

President Cyril Ramaphosa has long supported the new grant and, in his 2026 State of the Nation Address, promised that the rework of the new grant would happen this year.

Lazy pieces of shite...spits

Hopefully our government will follow the initiative.

The poor will get poorer.
More alcohol & drug abuse.

Sccarrr:
you don't have a forum to post news in Southafrica?
Oh I forgot, y'all are too busy looting,drinking and doing drugs.

You are not nice let Randigital and Samantga125 not catch you, you know Please spell words correctly when you post, and try to use perfect grammar and punctuation.

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Audio money, just to cover up their dirty ass

Okay. Good for them. However, isn’t it better to teach them skills rather than putting money in their hands ? Just like the proverb “ Give a man fish and you feed him and his family for one day ; Teach a man how to fish and you feed his generations for a lifetime” .

They prefer collecting this than working yet keep shouting foreigners are taking their jobs

legendarystar:
You are not nice let Randigital and Samantga125 not catch you, you know Please spell words correctly when you post, and try to use perfect grammar and punctuation.

Have you followed your own rules first? Look at what you posted.

Fixed

You're not nice. Don't let Randigital and Samantga125 catch you! You know, please spell words correctly when you post, and try to use proper grammar and punctuation.

Are the "poor" disabled?
More reason not to work.

...and they claim they're not lazy.

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Even disables go to the streets to hustle!

Making their citizens lazier than before. Watch and see how south Africa will be taken back in time in the next 5 years because they have entitled citizens that don't want to work but rather depend on their government for peanuts.

Mariangeles:
Are the "poor" disabled?
More reason not to work.

...and they claim they're not lazy.

You're very comfortable with your politicians chopping all your oil wealth for themselves.

In SA we understand our gold, platinum and diamonds belong to everyone who lives in the country, not just the 1% elite.

Why are Nigerian elites benefiting from your resources and you the common man are left to japa for a better life?

Set your brain to human default settings, MariaDevilish🤡, Arab citizens get free money for their oil, Scandinavians too. Are they also lazy?

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At least, South Africa are making moves.
Not like some other African countries that are still on religions ___ and tribalism.

RandDigital:
The Department of Social Development (DSD) hopes to finalise the policy for a new Basic Income Support (BIS) grant by March 2027, getting it ready for implementation.

The BIS is the new social grant the government plans to use to replace the COVID-19 Social Relief of Distress grant, which has been extended far beyond its original intent.

The SRD grant was a R350 per month support grant, later lifted to R370, launched in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic to help qualifying South Africans weather the economic uncertainty at the time.

The department noted that the grant was only ever expected to be in effect for six months, but over 8 million recipients became dependent on the support.

The DSD characterised the billions spent on the grant as a “success” because it directly addressed poverty, noting that recipients mainly used the money to buy food, electricity, and clothing.

This, it said, then supported local economies.

“Research by multiple independent researchers also found the SRD grant to be well targeted and successful in reducing hunger, poverty and inequality while also enabling the participation of beneficiaries in job search and other economic activity,” it said.

Because of this, the national government, supported by the presidency, is moving to transform the SRD grant into a new Basic Income Support policy, which is currently being processed.

President Cyril Ramaphosa has long supported the new grant and, in his 2026 State of the Nation Address, promised that the rework of the new grant would happen this year.

More people would prefer to stay idle, after all there's free coming from government. More entitlement, more crime

Lol! That will further make them lazy....
That's what they want.... Handouts from the government. They can't think, they can't work....

I tell you! That R350 goes for alcohol

I wonder why RandDigital is posting this. What narrative are you trying to paint now?

These guys are funny. Let's see how they are going to sustain it.

You don't need immigrants out of your country to share money for your citizens though.

This is why you have identification documents.

Inflation will catch up with this so fast that they will demand more in 2028 and since they are dependent on this sure income, the already lazy population will find less motivation to work.

tesseract:
Lazy pieces of shite...spits

How is South Africa government giving South Africans your problem. You are the type that causes problem for Nigerians in South Africa. You called them lazy, as if it is you that worked for the money their government want to give them. You called them all sort of unprintable names and still expect them to smile at us. Some people like you took this stupid attitude outside the country and cause problems for Nigerians.

eepeepook:
Hopefully our government will follow the initiative.

Conditional cash transfer.

Over 8.3m Households Benefited From Conditional Cash Transfer Programme
https://www.nairaland.com/8673311/over-8.3m-households-benefited-conditional

It's a welcome development, at least things like this are being done in European countries.

I just hope there's accountability.

Its their country and they should do whatever with it.

The funniest thing about this issue, is that the same people shouting xenophobia are the same people chasing IGBOs , as the problems of their generational failings in Nigeria.

South Africa, should do what is best for themselves, period!!

Nuff Said

RandDigital:
The Department of Social Development (DSD) hopes to finalise the policy for a new Basic Income Support (BIS) grant by March 2027, getting it ready for implementation.

The BIS is the new social grant the government plans to use to replace the COVID-19 Social Relief of Distress grant, which has been extended far beyond its original intent.

The SRD grant was a R350 per month support grant, later lifted to R370, launched in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic to help qualifying South Africans weather the economic uncertainty at the time.

The department noted that the grant was only ever expected to be in effect for six months, but over 8 million recipients became dependent on the support.

The DSD characterised the billions spent on the grant as a “success” because it directly addressed poverty, noting that recipients mainly used the money to buy food, electricity, and clothing.

This, it said, then supported local economies.

“Research by multiple independent researchers also found the SRD grant to be well targeted and successful in reducing hunger, poverty and inequality while also enabling the participation of beneficiaries in job search and other economic activity,” it said.

Because of this, the national government, supported by the presidency, is moving to transform the SRD grant into a new Basic Income Support policy, which is currently being processed.

President Cyril Ramaphosa has long supported the new grant and, in his 2026 State of the Nation Address, promised that the rework of the new grant would happen this year.

Southies are the worst dregs of the society. The day the killed Lucky Dube because they thought he was Nigerian, was the day I knew that country was a massive dysfunctional space and should be converted to the world largest mental care space.

8.3m is not "all citizens".

8.3m is to vulnerable population and most importantly, makes less than a fraction of the over 200m population.

If you give everybody in Nigeria cash at the end of every month, more than 60% of the population will become dependent on it, have no motivation to work.

Production drops rapidly and the cash can no longer buy anything because prices will rise as well.

Leading to people demanding more cash and this circle continues.

This is because money is just a piece of paper. It has no value. It's value must be backed by effort which is made visible by production.

The value of your money is tied to how much goods/services you can produce. This is why banks don't just print money when needed.

Money is tied to productivity. You cannot throw it at your problems and hope it goes away.

Education is important.

naptu2:
Conditional cash transfer.

Over 8.3m Households Benefited From Conditional Cash Transfer Programme
https://www.nairaland.com/8673311/over-8.3m-households-benefited-conditional

RandDigital:
The Department of Social Development (DSD) hopes to finalise the policy for a new Basic Income Support (BIS) grant by March 2027, getting it ready for implementation.

The BIS is the new social grant the government plans to use to replace the COVID-19 Social Relief of Distress grant, which has been extended far beyond its original intent.

The SRD grant was a R350 per month support grant, later lifted to R370, launched in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic to help qualifying South Africans weather the economic uncertainty at the time.

The department noted that the grant was only ever expected to be in effect for six months, but over 8 million recipients became dependent on the support.

The DSD characterised the billions spent on the grant as a “success” because it directly addressed poverty, noting that recipients mainly used the money to buy food, electricity, and clothing.

This, it said, then supported local economies.

“Research by multiple independent researchers also found the SRD grant to be well targeted and successful in reducing hunger, poverty and inequality while also enabling the participation of beneficiaries in job search and other economic activity,” it said.

Because of this, the national government, supported by the presidency, is moving to transform the SRD grant into a new Basic Income Support policy, which is currently being processed.

President Cyril Ramaphosa has long supported the new grant and, in his 2026 State of the Nation Address, promised that the rework of the new grant would happen this year.

Good initiative so far the economy can support it.

eepeepook:
Hopefully our government will follow the initiative.

No think am brother, remember buhari corrupt ministries on social welfare in which Dbanj was questioned on his involvement in the fraud.
Any initiative like this will goes directly into the pocket of our corrupt hungry politicians, they use the name and huge numbers of poor Nigerians to seek for loan and then eat the loan alone without real disbursement to the people that need it. It's a shame.
South Africa can do it because of white system there's accountability there.

RandDigital:
The Department of Social Development (DSD) hopes to finalise the policy for a new Basic Income Support (BIS) grant by March 2027, getting it ready for implementation.

The BIS is the new social grant the government plans to use to replace the COVID-19 Social Relief of Distress grant, which has been extended far beyond its original intent.

The SRD grant was a R350 per month support grant, later lifted to R370, launched in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic to help qualifying South Africans weather the economic uncertainty at the time.

The department noted that the grant was only ever expected to be in effect for six months, but over 8 million recipients became dependent on the support.

The DSD characterised the billions spent on the grant as a “success” because it directly addressed poverty, noting that recipients mainly used the money to buy food, electricity, and clothing.

This, it said, then supported local economies.

“Research by multiple independent researchers also found the SRD grant to be well targeted and successful in reducing hunger, poverty and inequality while also enabling the participation of beneficiaries in job search and other economic activity,” it said.

Because of this, the national government, supported by the presidency, is moving to transform the SRD grant into a new Basic Income Support policy, which is currently being processed.

President Cyril Ramaphosa has long supported the new grant and, in his 2026 State of the Nation Address, promised that the rework of the new grant would happen this year.

Just #42,000 chai see wahala, naso your people poor reach?

eepeepook:
Hopefully our government will follow the initiative.

NPOWER did more benefit than the SRD grant. Only for Balablu to cancel it.

EponObi:
This is not the solution to their problem.

Black S/Africans just entered a vicious circle, which may be very difficult to escape.

1. (No education, won't work because of laziness, entitlement, lack of exposure) led to

2. (Drug abuse, violence, high rate of crime, hate for foreigners) led to

3. (chasing foreigners out to "claim their jobs".) led to

4. (Entitlement, approval social grant aka government handout), which will lead to

5. Way more of (No education, won't work because of laziness, entitlement, lack of exposure), which will lead to

6. More of (Drug abuse, violence, high rate of crime) which will lead to

7. More (Dangers to foreigners) to

8. More (entitlement, more demand for government handout)

What has SA government done to their people? Chai! R350 is roughly 30k naira. The drug cartels are sitting at the top of this food chain to collect these handouts. The money for the social grant will move from the taxpayers to their government to the poor to drug cartels. That's more resources for the cartel to wreck more havoc on the citizens. Omo!

You just spewed your ignorance in bold letters to the public.

SA has a 90%+ literacy rate, only 8M out of 60M+ population receive grant. The rest have their own source of income.

Here's what the black government has achieved for South Africans since 1994. Can Nigerian government compare?

You're brainwashed to believe you don't deserve anything from your oil wealth while Tinubu and his children pig out on your resources and you're left to japa to SA for a better life.