User:AshleyZhu123/South africa social development department

Introduced in 1998 amid a great deal of controversy and fanfare, the CSG was a means‐tested cash benefit for poor children between the ages of 0 and 6 years, most of whom were located in the poorest of South Africa's nine provinces, i.e. the Eastern Cape, Kwazulu‐Natal and Limpopo (formerly known as the Northern Province).