The South African Rainbow Alliance (SARA) says the unemployed single men should receive SASSA Grant.
The President of the party mentioned that most men who are single caregivers cannot access the child
support grant and this make things difficult for them.
The party says, it will establish a grant targeted to support single unemployed men, if it be in government
after the elections.
It says most single fathers do not understand the provision in the Constitution Section 27, which states that
they can access the child support grant.
SARA President, Colleen Makhubele says, “For us right now, building those children that we have met, that
we have spoken to, even if it reaches two kids out there who are left desolate, now they have to be looked
after by some aunt or move to a different family, mainly because that single father is so ignorant and not by
design, but by circumstances, economic factors. We know that when they were designing the policy, it was
amended later to include men. But initially from conception, it was to assist women,” adds Makhubele.
Parents and primary caregivers qualify for the child support grant if their child is under the age of 18.
