Spotlight on social grants

Special GroundUp series on social grants

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Universal Basic Income Grant: who should run it?

The sad history of Net1 and the Post Office shows that this is an important question

Abby May, Zen Mathe and Michael Marchant for Open Secrets

Analysis | 8 May 2024

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Traditional leaders fight to keep SASSA cash pay points open

But SASSA says it’s too late

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News | 9 April 2024

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Beneficiaries struggling with grants since SASSA closed Macassar office

“People are poor and cannot afford to travel far for services that should be here,” says resident

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Brief | 8 April 2024

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Mpumalanga pensioners furious that SASSA paypoint closed

Tribal authority promises to take up the issue

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Brief | 26 March 2024

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Budget: Social grants go up but not by much

Old age, war veterans, disability and care dependency grants up by R90 in April and another R10 from October

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News | 21 February 2024

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Increase tax on sugary drinks to fund an increase in social grants, say activists

Higher sugar tax would also save on health care

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News | 21 February 2024

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“It’s almost like they want you to give up”: desperate applicants queue at SASSA Eersteriver

Even those who slept at the offices are not sure to be served

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Brief | 16 February 2024

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Old Age Grant is not enough to cover care needs, researchers find

Pensioners often carry households at the expense of their own needs

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News | 15 February 2024

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Recipients blocked from getting R350 grant after fraudsters change their cell numbers

SASSA says the SRD grant has placed a massive burden on the agency and plans to implement new software to help prevent fraud

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Brief | 16 January 2024

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My children will go to school without shoes, says mother whose child grant has not been paid

SASSA says 150,000 grants have been suspended

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News | 10 January 2024

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Many child support grant recipients left without money for January

SASSA spokesperson denies there is a problem, but officials speaking anonymously say otherwise

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News | 9 January 2024

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SASSA cash paypoints to be phased out by April 2024

Black Sash predicts “devastating” effect on grant recipients in rural areas

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Brief | 12 December 2023

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Black Sash film challenges SASSA’s closure of cash pay points in rural areas

But SASSA says it is inefficient and unsustainable to transport cash to a “handful of people”.

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News | 30 November 2023

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Here’s how South Africa’s social grant system has changed since 1994

SASSA pays 26-million grants every month

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Information | 2 November 2023

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No clarity on when Makhanda will have a post office again

The post office closed in July

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Brief | 2 November 2023

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MPs grill Social Development over grant payments

“If the same findings are coming through, how effective are these enforcement powers of the Auditor-General?”

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News | 12 October 2023