Spotlight on social grants
Special GroundUp series on social grants
Finance Minister announces 2022 social grant increases
New grant for orphans announced in budget. Nearly one in two South Africans now receives a grant
By Liezl Human
Brief | 23 February 2022
Concourt hammers unlawful social grants company
Cash Paymaster Services has tried to delay handing over information on its profits
Law | 14 February 2022
Activists lobby President to make Covid grant permanent
Following a meeting with organisations last week, the presidency acknowledged the impact the grant has had in reducing poverty and hunger
News | 26 January 2022
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