Spotlight on social grants
Special GroundUp series on social grants
Universal social security is now a matter of urgency
Government must implement a policy for either a basic income grant or a grant for unemployed people
By Abongile Nkamisa and Ariella Scher
Opinion | 3 December 2021
Activists demand Basic Income Grant
Protesters march on National Treasury after budget last week
Brief | 18 November 2021
Loadshedding causes social grant backlogs
SASSA says staff are manually filling out applications
Brief | 18 November 2021
CPS has still not revealed how much profit it made from social grants contract
Seven months after Constitutional Court order to supply documents, liquidators apply to delay further
News | 18 November 2021
Tax the rich, demand budget protesters
Unions and organisations call for a basic income grant
By Thamsanqa Mbovane, Marecia Damons and Liezl Human
News | 11 November 2021
Social grants: the research behind the controversy
We look at how different grants were evaluated in the recent SALDRU study
By James Stent
Analysis | 11 November 2021
Credit regulator fails to explain why it has withdrawn action against controversial money lender
Moneyline had been accused by Black Sash of using social grants as collateral for loans
News | 8 November 2021
Fire victims wait three years for SASSA disaster grants
Some families have still not been paid out after the October 2019 fire in Vygieskraal in Cape Town
Brief | 2 November 2021
Showdown over proposed family grant
Civil society says it won't work, but government document claims it is the best option
By Liezl Human
News | 29 October 2021