Scores of beneficiaries queue in this archive photo to receive the Social Relief of Distress outside a local post office in Rocklands, Bloemfontein. Photo: Teboho Setena
For government to severely cut budgets during an unprecedented socioeconomic crisis in this country, especially at the height of a simultaneous cost-of-living, unemployment and service delivery crises, will be like putting salt on festering wounds, argues Ebrahim Harvey.
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