Spotlight on social grants

Special GroundUp series on social grants

How Net1 will make money after social grant contract ends

Card linking grant recipients to company’s services will remain active

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News | 18 August 2017

Social grants: MPs accuse SASSA of deliberate delays

Post Office’s role in grant payments unclear

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Parliament | 15 August 2017

Black Sash appeals social grants deduction case

Organisation argues that High Court failed to recognise history of predatory practices

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Law | 4 August 2017

Social grant beneficiaries happy after cancelling “green” cards

People who closed EasyPay Everywhere accounts received their full grant amount on SASSA cards

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News | 7 July 2017

14 people live in a one-room shack

Mdantsane woman is trapped by debt

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News | 19 June 2017

Constitutional Court orders probe into minister’s conduct

Bathabile Dlamini may yet have to pay court costs out of her own pocket

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Law | 15 June 2017

Eastern Cape woman’s 23 year struggle to correct her ID

Nomboxo Kafile can’t access her old age grant because of the error

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News | 15 June 2017

Black Sash and Net1 in war of words

Chaotic event in Ceres highlights problems with social grant system

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Feature | 14 June 2017

Social grants company appoints “independent ombudsman”

Advocate Neville Melville says communication with beneficiaries remains “a huge problem”

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News | 6 June 2017