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Gladys Bakubaku-Vos
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Gladys Bakubaku-Vos(born 6 June 1966) is a South African politician who served as a Member of the Western Cape Provincial Parliament from May 2019 until May 2024. Prior to serving in the provincial parliament, she was a municipal councillor of the Stellenbosch Local Municipality. Bakubaku-Vos is a member of the African National Congress (ANC).
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Based on available estimates and assumptions of 5.6million and 7.1million respectively (at current levels of access), the extension of the SRD grant and caregiver grant at R585 per month will cost a combined R37billion. At a fraction of spending proposals under consideration, this is a clear test of whether the government puts the interests of capital before people,”
We applaud the government, which was hit by the coronavirus at a time when it was on its knees with regards to the economic downturn, the consequences of corruption and generally a slow growing economy. Despite all this, it managed to extend these grants and look after the most vulnerable in society.
It will be tough to keep the grants going in an economy that has not just been battered by Covid-19 and the lockdown rules, but by corruption, fraud and all sorts of maladministration including apartheid
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