Articles for Marecia Damons
Beneficiaries are still battling with SASSA’s new biometric system
Pilot programme rolled out to help recipients of the Social Relief of Distress grant to verify their identity
News | 30 July 2024
Churches join call for basic income grant
Providing a guaranteed minimum level of income frees people from vicious cycle of poverty, says Archbishop Thabo Makgoba
News | 26 July 2024
New app to help Western Cape social workers
Plan is to slash time spent on paperwork
News | 25 July 2024
Batten down the hatches: Cape Town families shovel sand to fend off further flooding
We don’t know how we are going to get through this disaster, says Siqalo resident
By Sandiso Phaliso and Marecia Damons
News | 16 July 2024
Western Cape storms: “worse is still to come”
Schools to close across the province as another storm hits, with about 15,000 people already severely affected by floods and damaging winds
By Sandiso Phaliso, Vincent Lali, Marecia Damons, Ashraf Hendricks, Liezl Human and Peter Luhanga
News | 10 July 2024
Thousands of homes flooded as violent storm batters Western Cape
Roads closed, schools and clinics damaged, rivers burst their banks
By Sandiso Phaliso, Ashraf Hendricks and Marecia Damons
News | 9 July 2024
Last 100 Paradise Park residents in Hermanus evicted
Decade-long battle to stave off eviction comes to an end
News | 5 July 2024
Khayelitsha women want to start a clothing factory
“We want others to see that as women, we can create our own opportunities and succeed,” says founder of sewing business
News | 3 July 2024
Here’s why people with green ID books are struggling with SASSA’s new verification process
Many beneficiaries of the monthly R370 Social Relief of Distress (SRD) grant might not be paid
News | 26 June 2024