# The government launches the COVID-19 Social Relief of Distress grant

Date: 2020

## The fact

In May 2020, during the COVID-19 lockdown, the [Ramaphosa](/people/cyril-ramaphosa) government launched the Social Relief of Distress grant for unemployed adults without other grants.

## Context

Lockdown sat as parent. Neighbouring load-shedding is a neighbour shock. He did not sit as SASSA.

2018 oath is the parent. Vulindlela is a neighbour reform.

The President of South Africa heads the national executive, appoints Cabinet, and assents to bills. He does not write an Eskom generation print, an NPA charging decision, a DA court challenge, or a US executive order by himself. Phala Phala cash in a sofa is not a completed criminal verdict unless a court so holds.

## Evidence and sources

The Presidency of South Africa carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is [household purchasing power](/drivers/household-purchasing-power): a completed emergency cash-transfer for the unemployed.

## What is established and what is not

Established: May 2020 SRD launch, independently reported.

Not established: a unique later poverty coefficient from that Friday, or that every eligible adult was paid that week.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

SASSA pays. Treasury funds.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies The government launches the COVID-19 Social Relief of Distress grant, not a later speech about The government launches the COVID-19 Social Relief of Distress grant.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. The government launches the COVID-19 Social Relief of Distress grant on 2020-05-01 is not a licence to treat every later The Presidency of South Africa communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average The government launches the COVID-19 Social Relief of Distress grant into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to He owned the COVID package. SASSA pays. Treasury funds. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Cyril Ramaphosa: https://factrail.ai/people/cyril-ramaphosa

## Drivers

- Household Purchasing Power: https://factrail.ai/drivers/household-purchasing-power
- Social Cohesion: https://factrail.ai/drivers/social-cohesion

## Sources

- https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-safrica-idUSKBN22C1QK
- https://www.thepresidency.gov.za/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/za-srd-2020