Spotlight on social grants
Special GroundUp series on social grants
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
Covid-19 protocols are observed inside SASSA offices, but not in the snaking queues of people waiting outside
Social grant applicants spend the night huddled together outside in the hope of being helped
News | 8 December 2020
Covid-19: long queues are spreading the disease, warn health officials
But SASSA beneficiaries still have to queue for hours
By Joseph Chirume, Mkhuseli Sizani, Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik and Thamsanqa Mbovane
News | 26 November 2020