SHUTDOWN Non-payment of scholar transport fees triggers huge taxi strike in Eastern Cape 5 min 5 By Estelle Ellis
LIFELINE Investing in human dignity: Why basic income support grants are crucial for a just society 5 min 1 By Rachel Bukasa
GROUNDUP Social grant recipients left in limbo as fraud management system proves fraught with danger 2 min 2 By Kelle Howson, Hoodah Abrahams-Fayker, Vayda Megannon, General Alfred Moyo
FOOD BASKET CHECK Inflation cooling, but basic food basket remains unaffordable for SRD grant recipients 4 min 3 By Naledi Sikhakhane
GROUNDUP Payment glitches leave child support grant recipients stranded without money in January 2 min 0 By Daniel Steyn, Qaqamba Falithenjwa and Thamsanqa Mbovane
OPEN SECRETS: UNACCOUNTABLE 00038 Net1 and CPS — Welfare Profiteers 11 min 1 By Erin Torkelson, Abby May and Michael Marchant for Open Secrets
SURVIVAL Grandparents spend their pensions to feed entire families as food crisis hits hard in Eastern Cape 5 min 0 By Estelle Ellis
DUE DILIGENCE RED FLAG OP-ED Social grant payments by Postbank and the SA Post Office – where is the oversight? 7 min 1 By Ariella Scher, Abby May and Hoodah Abrahams-Fayker
ADMINISTRATION CRISIS OP-ED Social grant payments are a mess – and the public needs answers from Sassa, Sapo and Postbank 8 min 2 By Open Secrets and Black Sash
GROUNDUP R350-a-month social relief grant extended until March 2024 3 min 0 By Liezl Human for GroundUp
MTBPS Mini budget – Prisons are a ‘college for criminals’, say activists in call to redirect funds 3 min 0 By Velani Ludidi
SOCIAL RELIEF OF DISTRESS Three million beneficiaries still not receiving SRD grants, says Minister Lindiwe Zulu 3 min 0 By Zukiswa Pikoli
POVERTY ALLEVIATION OP-ED South Africa needs a comprehensive Social Protection Floor to ensure food security for all 4 min 1 By Amanda Rinquest
BATTLE AGAINST HUNGER Women-headed households on the frontline of food insecurity 3 min 0 By Zukiswa Pikoli
CIVIL SOCIETY WATCH 22-26 AUGUST This week – remembering Babita Deokaran, Saftu shutdown and gender-based violence at higher learning institutions 5 min 0 By Tamsin Metelerkamp
GROUNDUP GOVERNMENT SERVICES Chaos in Khayelitsha as disorganised Sassa leaves disabled grant recipients standing in the rain 3 min 1 By Liezl Human for GroundUp
STATE OF DISASTER Distress but no social relief – Limpopo’s poor languish in misery after SRD grant cut off 8 min 0 By Zukiswa Pikoli
WEST VILLAGE HORROR Krugersdorp victim’s ordeal: ‘I closed my eyes, crying. Moments later, I was also raped, by three men’ 8 min 2 By Nonkululeko Njilo
#PAYTHEGRANTS The high economic costs of being excluded from the R350 Social Relief of Distress grant 6 min 2 By Maru Attwood
POVERTY CONCESSION R350 to R624: Minister proposes threshold raise for distress grant as concerns over low approval rate mount 2 min 2 By Zukiswa Pikoli
