2009 - President Motlanthe, State of the Nation Address, 6 February 2009 (Before National Elections)
… number of grant beneficiaries was 2,5-million in 1999, by 2008 this had increased to 12,4-million. This is largely a … from 34-thousand beneficiaries in 1999 to 8,1-million in 2008. As part of the contribution to the income of the poor, … the Expanded Public Works Programme was attained in 2008, a year earlier than envisaged in the 2004 electoral …