The R370 catch: Why family help could cost you your SRD grant
The South African | 26.05.2026 21:06
The unemployed Free State man, Moeketsi Thomas Masooa, in his late twenties, supports up to five dependants in a shared family home, and the Social Relief of Distress (SRD) grant is the thin line separating his household from nothing. Yet a flaw in SASSA’s automated system is threatening that lifeline, for him and thousands like him.
