DA Unveils Ambitious Social Grant Plan Ahead of Elections, Plans Widespread Reformations for SA’s Grant System
- The Democratic Alliance has unveiled its plan for South Africa's social welfare system if it is ever elected into power
- Ahead of the 2024 elections, the opposition party promised that it would increase the child support grant, lower food costs, and tackle homelessness
- The DA rubbished the idea that the party would do away with the social grant system once in power
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CAPE TOWN - The Democratic Alliance is already making plans for SA's grant system in case it wins the 2024 elections.
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The official opposition party launched its social development policy campaign to provide basic services and make social grants go further.
DA plans to increase child support grant, lower food prices and tackle homelessness
The DA's head of policy, MP Mat Cuthbert, released a statement detailing the reforms the party would make to protect SA's social welfare system.
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High up on the DA's objectives are increasing the child support grant, lowering food prices and creating a national plan to tackle homelessness.
The opposition party sought to dispel the notion that it would do away with the social grant system if elected into power, TimesLIVE reported.
The DA said:
“Social grants are a constitutional right, and any suggestion that the DA would take them away if elected into national government is patently false and misleading."
DA plans widespread changes for SA social welfare system
Some of the other changes the DA wants to make include:
- Ensuring the elderly have access to a retirement plan through automatic enrolment in a pension scheme which employees can choose to opt out of.
- Ensuring the poor have access to quality healthcare services through universal healthcare coverage.
- Reduce teenage pregnancy by increasing access to reproductive education and contraception in high schools
- Ensuring GBV survivors have access to health care, legal assistance, shelter and dignity kits
- Increasing safe spaces for children
Da launches legal bid to compel govt to arrest Putin, sparking debate in SA: “The DA is being used as pawns”
In another story, Breifly News reported the Democratic Alliance followed through on its promise to compel the arrest of Russian President Vladimir Putin by launching an application in the Johannesburg High Court.
The official opposition party is requesting a declaration that if Putin sets foot in South Africa to attend the Brics summit in August, the government must detain and surrender him to the International Criminal Court (ICC), IOL reported.
The move has divided many South Africans and sparked a heated debate online.
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