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Social Relief of Distress grant extended to March 2024

The COVID-19 Social Relief of Distress (SRD) Grant – also known as the R350 grant – is expected to be extended to the end of March 2024. This as government continues to consider options for a replacement for the grant with no decision taken yet on how the replacement will be financed. Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana announced the extension of the grant during his presentation of the Medium Term Budget Policy Statement in Parliament on Wednesday afternoon. “The SRD grant was introduced in May 2020 as a temporary measure to respond to the needs of the most vulnerable, who were affected by [COVID-19 induced] lockdown measures. It has been extended several times since then. Discussions on the future of the grant are ongoing and involve very difficult trade-offs and financing decisions,” he said. As a result of the extension of the SRD grants, other social grants – such as old age grants and disability grants – will increase lower than inflation. According to Treasury, the SRD grant is ex

my unisa - Three more Unisa law clinics launched

my unisa - Three more Unisa law clinics launched
my unisa - Three more Unisa law clinics launched

 Headed by Advocate Kgagudi Morota, the Unisa Law Clinic enlarged its footprint to 3 South African provinces to supply free quality legal aid and illustration in any court of law, tribunal, or body before that a celebration with a legal dispute is also painted by a legal practician.


Three new Unisa Law Clinics opened in Polokwane, Mpumalanga and also the Western Cape on twenty six could, one July and eight July 2022. the main focus of this community engagement project is to additionally do the clinic’s comes to the scholars like street law, moot court, student discussion and sensible legal coaching.


Offered on a yearly basis, these programmes bridge the gap between theory and apply. Moreover, these programmes give pragmatic skills for Unisa law students, to be effective and competitive within the legal apply.


‘We powerfully believe that the idea of the rule of law is meaningless till it signifies unlimited access to justice largely to poverty-stricken members of the community,’ says Morota. He more explains that the project can give basic legal education to community members in encompassing areas through their varied community programmes. ‘We square measure quite aware that access to a mere basic education during this country is commercialized as poverty-stricken members of the community square measure placed at a harmful position,’ he notes.


‘We serve man by enjoying a essential role within the promotion of Section thirty four of the Bill of Rights that guarantees that everybody has access to justice through the court of law in a very democratic South Africa. Thus, the Unisa Law Clinic could be a justice centre punctually recognised in terms of the Legal apply Act, twenty eight of 2014 (as amended) and licensed by the Legal apply Council,’ Morota concludes.


College of Law Acting govt Dean, faculty member Olaotse Kole, says that Unisa ought to have law clinics altogether regional centres wherever it operates. He adds: ‘We square measure thickening the notion of the African university within the service of humanity – we tend to cannot decision ourselves African if we tend to still confine our law clinic to capital of South Africa and maintain the establishment.’


In Kole’s read, the institution of law clinics in different areas brings back the dignity of Unisa’s black students and communities to receive justice and quality education.


The Unisa Law Clinic deals with matters like divorce, maintenance, force and eviction, and civil, labour and impact judicial proceeding. However, the law clinics won't give service on the Road Accident Fund (RAF), administration of estate, liquidation matters, transfer patents, copy rights, trademarks, medical negligence, illustration of a jural person and drafting of wills.


Recently, the Unisa Law Clinic’s Nomonde Gxilishe painted Babalo Ndwayana, the Stellenbosch college man whose area and belongings were urinated on by another student.


Unisa, through this community project, continues to shut structural and difference gaps by extending its help to the unprivileged communities. 


Click here to observe community response to the launch of the Polokwane branch, that passed off on the twenty sixth of could 2022.

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