#PayTheGrants and the Institute for Economic Justice say regulations exclude many people who are eligible; government disagrees
News | 2 September 2024
Schools are expected to receive their 2025 staff allocations on Friday
News | 27 August 2024
Poverty rates are rising but fewer babies are getting the grant, a UCT study finds
News | 23 August 2024
Clean-up operations are underway
Text by Marecia Damons. Photos by Ashraf Hendricks.
News | 20 August 2024
Applicants for grants urged to use the online system
Brief | 20 August 2024
Several offices closed on Tuesday
Brief | 14 August 2024
Social grant beneficiaries get up before dawn or sleep outside the office in Eerste River
News | 8 August 2024
Pilot programme rolled out to help recipients of the Social Relief of Distress grant to verify their identity
News | 30 July 2024
Providing a guaranteed minimum level of income frees people from vicious cycle of poverty, says Archbishop Thabo Makgoba
News | 26 July 2024
Plan is to slash time spent on paperwork
News | 25 July 2024
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
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
Roads closed, schools and clinics damaged, rivers burst their banks
By Sandiso Phaliso, Ashraf Hendricks and Marecia Damons
News | 9 July 2024
Decade-long battle to stave off eviction comes to an end
News | 5 July 2024
“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
Many beneficiaries of the monthly R370 Social Relief of Distress (SRD) grant might not be paid
News | 26 June 2024