@Anonymous: "I THINK GOVERNMENT SHOULD CREATE JOBS FOR THOSE GIRLS." Ah, sir or lady, you are clearly a great student of economics - because you believe jobs are just "created" out of thin air. And then, it is obvious that your preferred religion is "Governmentism," as you clearly believe that government has divine abilities. Nonsense. You definitely have no idea how the world really works. be very afraid of "government."

Hey Africa! If you can't feed 'em, don't breed 'em. Simple.

Scary! very scary picture... this is the tip of the iceberg. We need to dig deep to understand WHY,WHAT,WHERE,HOW...and WHO so as to come up with tangible, sustainable resolve for this social chaos!

I think now at schools they must have a subject that will teach the teenagers about the pregnancy,what it cause to our economy and teach them about family planning.Stoping the grant its not the best solution,there are those who really depend on it.

but the more children I have, the more grants I will get. If I have lots of children I will be very rich one day. Yes eet ees good in Afrika.

@Anonymous 2:25 - there's a study that was recently done that shows that South Africans are lazy to work. We would rather depend on grants than go find work. So, what I thought my solution is, ONLY CHILDREN WHOSE FATHERS HAVE PASSED SHOULD RECEIVE THE GRANT PROVIDED THAT THE MOTHER IS NOT WORKING.

YEP ....GRAVY TRAIN, go near a locatin you'l see tons of uncared ones running around, no house , no jobs, no food but babies GALORE !

Something wrong with the maths here. With 10 million odd recipients at R260 the child grant alone is R2.7 Billion per month or R32 Billion pa. The total figure must be R15 Billion per month. How long can we keep that up with our shrinking tax base?

What can one do with R260 pm???. R 20 000 000 000 on arms deal and another R20 000 000 000 on corruption last year = 40 000 000 000 = R3850 each or an extra R321 pm. ANC need to get their priorities correct. Look after the people!!

The number of people on grants already greatly exceeds the number of those paying tax. The problem is that the former are set to keep increasing, whilst the latter set to decrease. Simple arithmatic tells you where this will all end - in tears, of course.

This is very disturbing, because these figures include people from Zimbabwe and other people not suppose to be getting these grants. We as workers will keep on paying tax for benefitting criminals. Gorvement must take this serious very soon we will rebel againt paying the tax

This was a ploy to garner votes, and it has just dug the hole deeper for the poor and disenfranchised. The millions of fatherless children who are being dragged up in abject poverty (the child grant hardly coers teh cost of keeping a child alive, let alone health care, special needs and education) will be the next poor saps to vote anc because they do not know any better. The anc is literally planting and growing their own votes, because that is all these poor little things are worth to this greedy, selfish ruling party. In the meantime, the tax payers are bled dry. Its a shameful disgrace. Why don't they rather urge young women to get educated - of course, that's never going to happen because someone that can think for themselves will never continue to support the anc.

Gravy anyone ?

Is there no way they can stop those parents who have children just to obtain a grant? The money is meant to assist with the rearing of the child and not support the parent's bad habits. It beaks my heart to see kids being born to people who cannot afford them, yet family planning is free. Those who work will have an average of 2 to 3 kids while those unemployed and uneducated have too many to handle. I dont agree with the control some countries have in how many kids people are allowed, but some people are just not responsible enough to make their own choices...it's always the kids who suffer...

How can anyone feed, educate, clothe a child with R260 a month, that works out to +- R8.00 a day. The only solution here is for people not to have kids if you cant afford it. I think its so important that if you are planning on having kids to make sure you are able to fullfil at least all of their basic needs and to stop relying on the state to do it for you......

That is why you see so many children with runny noses in the poor areas. The government is the reason for this!!! This is way we see so many beggars on the street, this is way we get break ins at our houses. Thanks Government. You are NOT helping. If the parents know they won't get anything they will stop making them.

We are fast approaching the point where more people will be on welfare than are employed, its just wrong.

so 25% of the majority population lives on child grants while most of the rest of the majority population live on unemployment grant and the aged majority population lives on pension grants.

Child support grants have become South Africa's DOLE ... it has become easier to get a child support grant than to work .. but this is not sustainable as the tax base cannot support this kind of burden and it will ultimately ruin the economy - becuase it will now be impossible to ever withdraw it

The problem with child grant is that it encourages teenage pregnancy. A child growing up in a poor family will make sure she falls pregnant so that she could get the R260.00 a month. Once she falls pregnant, she bunks school. Should the amount not satisfy her, she will fall pregnant again. Now those kids will grow up in a poor household of child grants. Once they grow old, they will enter the cycle...fall pregnant, bunk school and get child grant. In the meantime, you and I are working very hard so that our children are not caught up in this vicious cycle of sad reality. The harder we work, the more child grants we pay. Eish, JZ, when is this pathetic state of affairs gonna be stopped?