Spotlight on social grants

Special GroundUp series on social grants

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SASSA meeting postponed again

ANC MPs to attend lekgotla instead

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Brief | 24 January 2017

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Weeks from grant payment deadline, SASSA still has no plan

Call for tenders suddenly goes out

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News | 18 January 2017

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Old age pensioners should get funeral insurance, says Black Sash

Amendments to Social Assistance Act proposed

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News | 6 December 2016

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Social grants: Minister to make announcement on switchover

Black Sash warns of looming national crisis

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News | 28 November 2016

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Social grant recipients want answers from SASSA

Pietermaritzburg beneficiaries still waiting for their money

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Brief | 16 November 2016

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Social grants: victims of deductions protest in Durban

Pensioners complain of unauthorised airtime deductions

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News | 18 October 2016

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Black Sash gathers support for social grants campaign

“Hands off our Grants” event in St George’s Cathedral

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News | 12 October 2016

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Leticha and the debt trap

A case study of how vulnerable people are preyed upon

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Feature | 15 September 2016

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Grandmother with only one eye is still waiting for a house

Six people live in a small caravan in East London township

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News | 13 September 2016