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Millions of poor South Africans rely on social grants, including the child support grant, just to survive. PHILL MAGAKOE/AFP via Getty Images

South Africa can – and should – top up child support grants to avoid a humanitarian crisis

Ihsaan Bassier, UMass Amherst; Joshua Budlender, UMass Amherst; Murray Leibbrandt, University of Cape Town; Rocco Zizzamia, University of Oxford, and Vimal Ranchhod, University of Cape Town

To support precarious households that can’t access existing relief during lockdown and its aftermath, the government should implement a temporary increase in the value of the child support grant.

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