South Africa: Refugees and Asylum Seekers in SA Must Get COVID-19 Grant, Court Orders

[Daily Maverick] The South African government has been ordered to include asylum seekers and special permit holders from Lesotho, Angola and Zimbabwe as recipients of the R350 Covid-19 social relief of distress grant. The court declared a regulation, made by Social Development minister Lindiwe Zulu, as unconstitutional. The administration of the grant seems to have turned into a nightmare for the government as the South African Social Security Agency released a statement admitting that they were aware of large-scale unhapp
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - Category: African Health Source Type: news