# Social Development minister, Nokuzola Sisisi Tolashe, has called for a reimagining of grants as strategic levers for social protection rather than being limited to poverty relief. More than 20-million South Africans depend on social grants as an income-generation measure to alleviate poverty, unemployment, and inequality. The minister has identified three pillars that would help reframe grants from poverty relief to social protection. These are recognising that social grants are foundational, redesigning grant distribution, and embedding linkages between social grant distribution and the informal economy.
Social Development minister is calling for a reframing of grants from poverty relief to social protection