Hon Chair, the EFF is of the view that the Department of Social Development should be linked to proper developmental outcomes. The current social welfare system, particularly social grants, just worsens the poverty of social grant recipients. We believe that social grants should be increased by 100% with immediate effect to accommodate and improve the living conditions of people.
The government must give people adequate money to take care of themselves. The EFF proposes that this government must increase social grants by 100%, and the old-age social grant must increase from R1 300 to R2 600 per month; the disability grant should increase from R1 200 to R2 400 per month - you can do that; the war veterans' grant should increase from R1 220 to R2 440; the care dependency grant should increase from R1 200 to R2 400; the foster- care child grant should increase from R800 to R1 600 for our own people; and the child-support grant must be R620 per month instead of this R310, which is nothing. You should be ashamed of yourselves.
Early childhood development, ECD, is not accessible to the majority of our people. ECD must be made part of mainstream schooling from the age of three years. ECD practitioners must be paid properly and they must be treated like the proper teachers that they are.
Our people must not travel long distances to gain access to Sassa. The EFF proposes that each and every ward in South Africa must have at least one Sassa office. Thank you. [Time expired.]