Spotlight on social grants
Special GroundUp series on social grants
Race to clear foster care backlog before November
Department of Social Development’s backlog still huge as new deadline looms
News | 18 March 2020
Refugee mother owed nine months of child grants
Annie Tshimanga given the runaround by SASSA after her card was stolen
Brief | 2 March 2020
Budget Day marked by protests and marches
Issues included unemployment, climate change and gender rights
By Ashraf Hendricks, Tariro Washinyira and Vincent Lali
News | 26 February 2020
BEE partners did nothing, say auditors of SASSA contract
Explosive report into costs claimed by Cash Paymaster Services on social grants payment contract
By Zoë Postman
Feature | 6 February 2020
Cash Paymaster Services might have to pay SASSA R1 billion
Auditor’s report suggests the company understated its profits by more than R840 million
By Zoë Postman
Feature | 6 February 2020
Social Development asks for extension to clear foster care grant backlog
The battle to resolve the huge backlog dates back to 2011
News | 20 November 2019
Government scrambles as court deadline on foster care looms
Thousands of foster care grants at stake
News | 31 October 2019
Will Net1 have to pay back the money?
Accounts being audited by SASSA in accordance with Constitutional Court ruling
GroundView | 29 October 2019
New social grant system hurts the elderly, study finds
Long queues, no toilets: the closure of the old paypoints leaves pensioners in the lurch
News | 4 October 2019