Survey shows strong support for extending social grants

CATEGORY: Media and COVID-19
DATE: 27 October 2020
AUTHOR: Polity.org.za

Survey participants were provided with a set of 13 policy proposals and asked to indicate which they favoured. From this list, food parcels (70% support), increasing the value of social grants (69%), and the R350 Covid relief grant (69%) were the top ranked policy options.

These latest findings come from round 2 of the UJ/HSRC Covid-19 democracy survey, which was conducted between 3 July and 8 September. The data for the second round comprised of 7,966 respondents.

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