Spotlight on social grants

Special GroundUp series on social grants

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SASSA pensioners sleep outside post office

Finally, beneficiaries are paid their grants, after delay

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News | 5 May 2020

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“System glitch” sends scores of SASSA beneficiaries home empty handed

SASSA KZN says benefiaries will be paid by Tuesday

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Brief | 4 May 2020

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Covid-19: Increase in social grants not good enough, say critics

Activists and academics say government’s grant increases are a “way of appearing generous while actually reducing the disaster relief budget”

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News | 29 April 2020

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Covid-19 grant: We can learn from Namibia

Emergency grant was paid out to hundreds of thousands within three weeks

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Analysis | 29 April 2020

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Covid-19: Ramaphosa’s plan is good, but the budget is insufficient

An in-depth analysis of the social grants component of the relief package

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Analysis | 23 April 2020

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Parent company moves to put Cash Paymaster Services into business rescue

Corruption Watch slams “legal manoeuverings by CPS to avoid paying its debt to the fiscus”

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News | 22 April 2020

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Why South Africa needs basic income support now

A rapid increase in hunger levels in the poorest households undermines people’s ability to comply with the lockdown

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Opinion | 21 April 2020

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New twist in repayment of profits to SASSA

Application to Concourt in dispute over Cash Paymaster Services’ accounts

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News | 15 April 2020

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Covid-19: Premier Mabuyane witnesses huge queues for social grants

“Our biggest concern is when the virus reaches rural areas and townships”

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Brief | 30 March 2020

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Covid-19: Busy roads, long queues and children playing in the streets of Port Elizabeth

Pensioners queue among mass of shoppers to collect social grants

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Brief | 30 March 2020

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Covid-19: Here’s a possible source of funds for social grants

Cash Paymaster Services could pay back profits as ordered by Constitutional Court

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GroundView | 27 March 2020

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Race to clear foster care backlog before November

Department of Social Development’s backlog still huge as new deadline looms

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News | 18 March 2020

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Refugee mother owed nine months of child grants

Annie Tshimanga given the runaround by SASSA after her card was stolen

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Brief | 2 March 2020

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Budget Day marked by protests and marches

Issues included unemployment, climate change and gender rights

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News | 26 February 2020

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BEE partners did nothing, say auditors of SASSA contract

Explosive report into costs claimed by Cash Paymaster Services on social grants payment contract

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Feature | 6 February 2020

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Cash Paymaster Services might have to pay SASSA R1 billion

Auditor’s report suggests the company understated its profits by more than R840 million

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Feature | 6 February 2020