Special GroundUp series on social grants
About 1.4-million people still need to replace their SASSA cards before the deadline on Thursday
News | 14 March 2025
Agency plans to improve rented office space
Brief | 13 March 2025
Finance minister announces above-inflation grant increases
By Marecia Damons and Daniel Steyn
News | 12 March 2025
17.4-million people have applied for the Social Relief of Distress grant since it was introduced in May 2020
Brief | 11 March 2025
We spent time with 31-year-old Khanyo Mantshi from Khayelitsha who says his grant falls short of his needs
News | 10 March 2025
Postbank acknowledges that completing the card transition before 20 March deadline is unlikely
By Joseph Bracken and Marecia Damons
News | 6 March 2025
Postbank admits that completing the process on time is “impossible”
News | 4 March 2025
Unclear why same investigators, with unclear qualifications for the job, have presented more or less the same obvious findings to Parliament a second time
By Marecia Damons and Nathan Geffen
News | 26 February 2025
The Department of Social Development is to appeal the recent ruling. But #PayTheGrants and the Institute for Economic Justice say it should and can be implemented
News | 19 February 2025