Sassa

SASSA explains why it paid grants to 75,000 dead people

Systems are being improved to solve the problem

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News | 20 March 2025

Only one million grantees have so far switched to Postbank’s new card

Postbank says it’s issuing over 30,000 per day to get as many people swapped before the 20 March deadline

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News | 18 March 2025

SASSA’s plans to shorten queues and improve grant payment system

About 1.4-million people still need to replace their SASSA cards before the deadline on Thursday

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News | 14 March 2025

SASSA battling to find a permanent office in Khayelitsha

Agency plans to improve rented office space

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Brief | 13 March 2025

Here’s how a disabled person spent their grant

We spent time with 31-year-old Khanyo Mantshi from Khayelitsha who says his grant falls short of his needs

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News | 10 March 2025

Slow systems delay switch to new social grant card

Postbank acknowledges that completing the card transition before 20 March deadline is unlikely

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News | 6 March 2025

About 1.9-million people still need to swap gold cards as SASSA deadline looms

Postbank admits that completing the process on time is “impossible”

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News | 4 March 2025

Serious flaws in SASSA system, MPs are told - again

Unclear why same investigators, with unclear qualifications for the job, have presented more or less the same obvious findings to Parliament a second time

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News | 26 February 2025

Pensioners queue for hours to replace expiring SASSA cards

“If I don’t change my card there will be no income in my house,” says 84-year-old KZN pensioner

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News | 14 February 2025

This SASSA office opens earlier to deal with “high influx” of clients

A community worker says she sleeps outside the office to secure spaces for elderly or disabled people

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News | 10 February 2025

No end to long queues at SASSA Khayelitsha

Grant recipients and applicants must sleep over or arrive in the early hours if they hope to get served

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Brief | 5 February 2025

Explosive court ruling on SRD grant

Government ordered to “progressively increase” the grant and income threshold, and allow in-person applications

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News | 24 January 2025

Over a hundred disabled and elderly people queue outside SASSA in Khayelitsha

Monday was the first day for disability grant applicants to make medical bookings

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News | 21 January 2025

MPs demand probe into “entire social grant payment system”

Portfolio committee chair Bridget Masango says officials found guilty of fraud or misconduct must be brought to book

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News | 16 January 2025

SASSA accuses media of “overstating the problems” at the agency

“These negative reports have led to an unfortunate conclusion that SASSA has completely failed in its responsibility” SASSA’s Sibusiso Nhlangothi tells the Western Cape provincial legislature

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News | 3 December 2024

Investigation into social grant fraud is a flop

SASSA investigation into SRD grant application system fails to answer crucial questions

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Analysis | 27 November 2024