# Solidarity’s Helping Hand warns South Africa faces a perfect social welfare storm as the economy weakens and government spending focuses mostly on grants. Solidarity’s Phillip Bruwer criticised the Social Development Department’s new budget of 294-billion-rand, with 96-percent going to social grants for over 27-million people. Bruwer urges the government to prioritise development and policies that create jobs to reduce poverty sustainably:
Solidarity’s Helping Hand criticises government for fostering dependency instead of promoting job creation [SOUND]
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