Spotlight on social grants
Special GroundUp series on social grants
“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
SASSA’s big test: When will the emergency Covid-19 social grant be paid?
Many South Africans have no income
Analysis | 19 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
News | 13 May 2020
Covid-19: Applicants for grants sleep outside SASSA offices
“We do not have any other choice but to wait”
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
By Gilad Isaacs
Opinion | 12 May 2020
SASSA blames staff shortage for grant glitches
Nearly 600,000 grant payments duplicated on Monday
By Zoë Postman
Brief | 6 May 2020
SASSA pensioners sleep outside post office
Finally, beneficiaries are paid their grants, after delay
News | 5 May 2020
“System glitch” sends scores of SASSA beneficiaries home empty handed
SASSA KZN says benefiaries will be paid by Tuesday
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”
News | 29 April 2020