Spotlight on social grants
Special GroundUp series on social grants
Covid-19 grant beneficiaries pay up to R150 for a place in post office queue
“South Africa is like that, if you don’t have money you can’t have access to things”
News | 20 January 2021
Police probe use of water cannon against social grant applicants
SASSA admits it’s in “crisis mode”
News | 20 January 2021
Their mother died in 2018. Since then this family of five has survived on child support grants
There are over 30,000 child headed households in South Africa
News | 18 January 2021
Premier Winde calls on President Ramaphosa to intervene in SASSA crisis
This comes after police opened a water cannon on people queueing for grants in Bellville
By Mary-Anne Gontsana and Ashraf Hendricks
News | 15 January 2021
Social grants: the young men who make a living queuing for others
Sometimes knives are drawn as “agents” fight for their place in the Covid-19 grant queue
News | 15 January 2021
Extend disability grants, Black Sash tells SASSA as queues shock country
SASSA has proposed a ten-point plan to deal with backlogs
By Mary-Anne Gontsana and GroundUp Staff
News | 14 January 2021
When you have to spend R120 to access your R350 social grant
Eastern Cape beneficiaries travel 100km to try to beat the queues
News | 14 January 2021
Blind pensioner left in the rain without answers outside SASSA office
SASSA says her old age grant will be paid in February
News | 13 January 2021
Sick people queue outside SASSA offices as disability grants lapse
53,000 disability grants have lapsed in the Western Cape
News | 13 January 2021