Fact-a-day archive

Social Relief provides temporary income support, food parcels or other forms of relief to those facing undue hardship. This assistance,… Read More

23% of South African households rely on pensions and grants as their main source of income, up from 16% in… Read More

Treasury expects the number of old age grant beneficiaries to increase to 2.9 million by 2014/15, up from 2.7 million… Read More

South Africa’s social assistance system currently supports 15.2 million South Africans, 10.8 million of whom are children who benefit from… Read More

83% of South African adults with a monthly household income of less than R5,000 agree with the statement ‘The value… Read More

The National Treasury estimated that the total value of production lost to platinum and gold mining strikes and stoppages since… Read More