Special GroundUp series on social grants
Scuffles break out as desperate people try to get to the front of the queue
News | 13 May 2020
“We do not have any other choice but to wait”
News | 12 May 2020
If you want people to stay home and businesses to stay shut, you have to pay them to do so
By Gilad Isaacs
Opinion | 12 May 2020
Nearly 600,000 grant payments duplicated on Monday
By Zoë Postman
Brief | 6 May 2020
Finally, beneficiaries are paid their grants, after delay
News | 5 May 2020
SASSA KZN says benefiaries will be paid by Tuesday
Brief | 4 May 2020
Activists and academics say government’s grant increases are a “way of appearing generous while actually reducing the disaster relief budget”
News | 29 April 2020
Emergency grant was paid out to hundreds of thousands within three weeks
By Jeremy Seekings, Lena Gronbach and Nicoli Nattrass
Analysis | 29 April 2020
An in-depth analysis of the social grants component of the relief package
Analysis | 23 April 2020
Corruption Watch slams “legal manoeuverings by CPS to avoid paying its debt to the fiscus”
By Zoë Postman
News | 22 April 2020
A rapid increase in hunger levels in the poorest households undermines people’s ability to comply with the lockdown
Opinion | 21 April 2020
Application to Concourt in dispute over Cash Paymaster Services’ accounts
By Zoë Postman
News | 15 April 2020
“Our biggest concern is when the virus reaches rural areas and townships”
By Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik and Johnnie Isaac
Brief | 30 March 2020
Pensioners queue among mass of shoppers to collect social grants
By Joseph Chirume and Mkhuseli Sizani
Brief | 30 March 2020
Cash Paymaster Services could pay back profits as ordered by Constitutional Court
GroundView | 27 March 2020
Department of Social Development’s backlog still huge as new deadline looms
News | 18 March 2020