Innholdsfortegnelse for 2021-08-10 i Daily Voice

BY NOW everyone knows that the R350 Social Relief of Distress grant is back in effect from the end of August 2021 until the end of March 2022. However, there is still much confusion about the grant. Yet, 45 minutes after the system opened up for applications, there were already problems which left mense frustrated and fuming. I have tried to clarify some facts around the latest R350 grant: 1. Applications opened on Friday, 6 August 2021. 2. Over 2000 people per minute applied for the grant on the first day. 3. The SASSA website couldn’t cope with all this traffic, and they then added more ways besides the website and Whatsapp to apply for the grant. 4. Applications can only be done digitally via the following ways: A.…

TEARS of disbelief flowed in Sunbird Park on Saturday when the body of a hard-working teen volunteer was found dumped on a veldjie after he had been stabbed and robbed of his Nike takkies. The hartseer parents of Juanc Thompson, 19, say they were devastated when they were called to the scene after the youngster never returned home on Friday night. Dad Francisco Alberto, 48, says his first-born son had visited friends and it is believed he was attacked while walking home. Home “Juanc lived with his mother and on Friday, he went to see friends,” the father explains. “He didn’t come home and on Saturday morning, the people came to call us saying someone found his body while walking past the field. “When we got there, we could see…

Wondered The neighbour told the Daily Voice: “I usually took ouma a cup of coffee when I see her sitting outside and we wondered where she was on Sunday. It is alleged the man was drunk when he assaulted the ouma on Saturday night after she apparently scolded him when he wanted to go and sleep. In a statement, granddaughter Aneeqah Doubell said her brother, his partner, their son and the partner’s 25-year-old son stayed in the house with Cynthia. The suspect is the son of the partner and was not related to Cynthia. “We regarded my brother’s partner as a caregiver for my grandmother and regularly checked in with her and sent money and food vouchers to contribute to the care of my grandmother,” said Aneeqah. “My brother and…