Now our generation is so reliant on grants, and their sense of entitlement is skyrocketing.
My biggest fear is that we are feeding a monster that will turn against us in future.
Don’t get me wrong, I know the country is faced with a disturbing unemployment rate and we are a third world country or even worse.
But I think grants have somehow made our youth very lazy and too entitled.
Some have gone to the extent of reproducing every year so they increase the amount they receive. In the long run it’s the children who are affected the most because that amount cannot sustain let alone buy basic needs for a child.
How will we educate our youth not to engage in sexual intercourse when they are the ones dominating the social grants database?
I think a more in-depth screening process should be introduced so we don’t sit with a problem of young people having children for the sake of money.
To make matters worse, some mothers don’t even use the grant they receive to buy necessities to benefit their children.
On the first of every month liquor stores and hair salons are fully packed with these young women queuing to buy alcohol and fix their hair.
Then one has to ask if this social grant is really benefiting the children?
This is not the situation with every person who receives a child grant but in most instances it is.
It is unfair to the taxpayer and moreover to the child who has to queue at school feeding schemes because that will be the last meal they have for the day.
Some of these parents even use their cards as collateral to take out loans from loan sharks.
Our young people need to learn that having a child is a huge responsibility, which requires one to have an income that will take care of the child and their needs.
I feel like we are too spoiled by our government, who introduced the grant for those who are really in need of that amount even though it’s not that much.
What is more alarming is our orphanages and places of safety which are filled with children who are abandoned by mothers who feel like they no longer can take care of them.
The truth is you cannot raise a child with R300 every month, with the current state of the economy it’s virtually impossible.
