Mathebula, JabulaneFish, TebogoMasvaure, Steve2022-02-022022-02-022022-01https://hdl.handle.net/10539/32685Across the world, social protection programmes are designed and implemented to protect populations in distress or crisis from falling further into poverty. Currently, South Africa has one of the highest rates of income inequality (Gini coeffi cient of 0.65), unemployment and poverty in the world, and social protection programmes have been used by the state as a mechanism of wealth redistribution. To give some context, between 2011 and 2015, poverty levels in South Africa have deepened (Statistics South Africa 2015). One in four South Africans live below the food poverty line, and the Poverty Trends Report (Schotte et al 2018) fi nds that more than one in every two South Africans has fallen below the upper bound poverty line.encovid19Evaluation