OPINIONISTA: Time for serious investment in old-age pension grant

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OPINIONISTA: Time for serious investment in old-age pension grant By Koketso Moeti

to the finance committee in Parliament. Numerous letters to government officials and politicians went unanswered as pensioners pleaded their case.

In July of last year, Makgema suffered from a stroke which left her shoulder injury. She’s due for surgery later this month, but she is worried that she cannot undergo the procedure since her grandchildren don’t have someone to take care of them. The parents of the children, Makgema’s own kids, have disappeared while another has died.

by the Pietermaritzburg pensioners forum, “providing all 3,5-million pensioners with a bonus in December 2018 would have cost around R5.8-billion, which is relatively equivalent to the R5.57-billion re-prioritised to e-tolls”“it makes more sense for the money to go directly into South African pockets to help 3.

 

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