Spotlight on social grants

Special GroundUp series on social grants

Summary image for article

Covid-19: Hundreds of social grant applicants turned away in East London

Scuffles break out as desperate people try to get to the front of the queue

By

News | 13 May 2020

Photo of queue of people

Covid-19: Applicants for grants sleep outside SASSA offices

“We do not have any other choice but to wait”

By

News | 12 May 2020

Photo of social grants queue

Covid-19: The lockdown is being torn apart on the rocks of fiscal miserliness

If you want people to stay home and businesses to stay shut, you have to pay them to do so

By

Opinion | 12 May 2020

Photo of a SASSA branded car

SASSA blames staff shortage for grant glitches

Nearly 600,000 grant payments duplicated on Monday

By

Brief | 6 May 2020

Photo of queue

SASSA pensioners sleep outside post office

Finally, beneficiaries are paid their grants, after delay

By

News | 5 May 2020

Photo of beneficiaries standing in snaking queues outside the post office

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

SASSA KZN says benefiaries will be paid by Tuesday

By

Brief | 4 May 2020

Photo of social grant beneficiaries outside a SASSA office

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”

By

News | 29 April 2020

Photo of R350

Covid-19 grant: We can learn from Namibia

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

By , and

Analysis | 29 April 2020

Photo of Cyril Ramaphosa

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

By

Analysis | 23 April 2020