COSATU Urges Government to Strengthen Relief for Poor and Unemployed Ahead of Budget

Union federation COSATU is urging the government and National Treasury to do more for South Africa’s poor and unemployed in Wednesday’s National Budget. COSATU spokesperson Matthew Parks emphasised the need to increase the Social Relief of Distress (SRD) grant to align with the food poverty line, and to expand the Presidential Employment Stimulus to reach one million young people by April and two million by November. “Other public employment programmes […]