Analyze the impact that the increasing number of social grants may have on the employment rate
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Explanation:
• The number of beneficiaries who receive non-contributory social grants rose from 2.9 million in 1994 to 13.4 million people in 2009, while the value of those grants increased from 2.9 per cent to 4.4 per cent of GDP over the same period
• In 2010, 80 per cent of the elderly and 71 per cent of eligible children were estimated to receive grants.
• Since 1994, 15 million previously serviced households have been connected to a formal water supply, while between 1993 and 2009 access to electricity for lighting increased by almost 60 per cent, to reach 82 per cent of all households (Bhorat et al., 2006).
• Estimates suggest that the value of free or subsidised services, which the South African government often refers to as the “social wage”, was aboutR88 billion in 2004, or R587 per household per month19 (Friedman and Bhengu, 2008).