SASSA applicants brave cold and rain to queue for help

SASSA says it’s only accepting online applications for the Covid-19 Relief Grant

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News | 26 May 2020

“I slept outside SASSA for two days with my child” says mom desperate for help

The line outside the offices in Long Street has been snaking for days

Photos by Ashraf Hendricks

News | 21 May 2020

Covid-19: Hundreds of social grant applicants turned away in East London

Scuffles break out as desperate people try to get to the front of the queue

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News | 13 May 2020

Covid-19: Applicants for grants sleep outside SASSA offices

“We do not have any other choice but to wait”

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News | 12 May 2020

Covid-19: The lockdown is being torn apart on the rocks of fiscal miserliness

If you want people to stay home and businesses to stay shut, you have to pay them to do so

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Opinion | 12 May 2020

SASSA blames staff shortage for grant glitches

Nearly 600,000 grant payments duplicated on Monday

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Brief | 6 May 2020

SASSA pensioners sleep outside post office

Finally, beneficiaries are paid their grants, after delay

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News | 5 May 2020

“System glitch” sends scores of SASSA beneficiaries home empty handed

SASSA KZN says benefiaries will be paid by Tuesday

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Brief | 4 May 2020

Covid-19: Increase in social grants not good enough, say critics

Activists and academics say government’s grant increases are a “way of appearing generous while actually reducing the disaster relief budget”

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News | 29 April 2020

Covid-19 grant: We can learn from Namibia

Emergency grant was paid out to hundreds of thousands within three weeks

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Analysis | 29 April 2020

Covid-19: Ramaphosa’s plan is good, but the budget is insufficient

An in-depth analysis of the social grants component of the relief package

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Analysis | 23 April 2020

Parent company moves to put Cash Paymaster Services into business rescue

Corruption Watch slams “legal manoeuverings by CPS to avoid paying its debt to the fiscus”

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News | 22 April 2020

Why South Africa needs basic income support now

A rapid increase in hunger levels in the poorest households undermines people’s ability to comply with the lockdown

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Opinion | 21 April 2020

New twist in repayment of profits to SASSA

Application to Concourt in dispute over Cash Paymaster Services’ accounts

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News | 15 April 2020

Covid-19: Premier Mabuyane witnesses huge queues for social grants

“Our biggest concern is when the virus reaches rural areas and townships”

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Brief | 30 March 2020