Sassa
Slow systems delay switch to new social grant card
Postbank acknowledges that completing the card transition before 20 March deadline is unlikely
By Joseph Bracken and Marecia Damons
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”
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
By Marecia Damons and Nathan Geffen
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
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
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
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
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
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
News | 16 January 2025