Spotlight on social grants
Special GroundUp series on social grants
Only one million grantees have so far switched to Postbank’s new card
Postbank says it’s issuing over 30,000 per day to get as many people swapped before the 20 March deadline
News | 18 March 2025
SASSA’s plans to shorten queues and improve grant payment system
About 1.4-million people still need to replace their SASSA cards before the deadline on Thursday
News | 14 March 2025
SASSA battling to find a permanent office in Khayelitsha
Agency plans to improve rented office space
Brief | 13 March 2025
Budget: Social grants to increase and VAT goes up
Finance minister announces above-inflation grant increases
By Marecia Damons and Daniel Steyn
News | 12 March 2025
SASSA gets about 80,000 new SRD grant applications each month
17.4-million people have applied for the Social Relief of Distress grant since it was introduced in May 2020
Brief | 11 March 2025
Here’s how a disabled person spent their grant
We spent time with 31-year-old Khanyo Mantshi from Khayelitsha who says his grant falls short of his needs
News | 10 March 2025
Slow systems delay switch to new social grant card
Postbank acknowledges that completing the card transition before 20 March deadline is unlikely
By Joseph Bracken and Marecia Damons
News | 6 March 2025
About 1.9-million people still need to swap gold cards as SASSA deadline looms
Postbank admits that completing the process on time is “impossible”
News | 4 March 2025
Serious flaws in SASSA system, MPs are told - again
Unclear why same investigators, with unclear qualifications for the job, have presented more or less the same obvious findings to Parliament a second time
By Marecia Damons and Nathan Geffen
News | 26 February 2025