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Sassa claims it’s on target to clear Western Cape disability grant backlog

Liezl Human for GroundUp
14 APR
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For vulnerable households, the right to dignified existence warps into torture at the till point

Georgina Crouth
06 APR
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ConCourt orders CPS to hand over documents showing social grant profits

Tania Broughton
01 APR
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Call for Child Support Grant to include poor pregnant women

Marecia Damons
19 MAR
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Sassa vows to meet its disability grant deadline despite backlog

Mary-Anne Gontsana
04 MAR
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Covid-19 leaves Zim immigrants desperate for help with food in SA

Tariro Washinyira
03 MAR
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Bathabile Dlamini spits Twitter fire after pension block

Ferial Haffajee
02 MAR
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Glitch in the system: How the digitisation of South Africa’s social grant payments morphed into exploitation

Christi Nortier
24 FEB
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Brutality against grant recipients highlights urgent need for reform in public order policing

Sean Tait and Mary Rayner
23 FEB
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The vulnerable suffer as grant recipients are thrown into admin hell

Estelle Ellis
06 FEB
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#PayTheGrants: Activists call for the Social Relief of Distress grant to be extended and increased to R585

Zukiswa Pikoli
29 JAN
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Lindiwe Zulu urged to introduce new child grant

Liezl Human for GroundUp
27 JAN
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Eyebrows raised over amount of Western Cape Sassa disability applications as water cannon inquiries continue

Suné Payne
22 JAN
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Disability grants: Sassa promises to clear Western Cape backlog by end of March

Mary-Anne Gontsana
21 JAN
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SASSA office only serves 50 people a day. This is what it looked like at 1:30pm

Thamsanqa Mbovane for GroundUp
21 JAN
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Covid-19 grant beneficiaries pay up to R150 for a place in Post Office queue

Nompendulo Ngubane for GroundUp
20 JAN
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Police probe use of water cannon against social grant applicants

Mary-Anne Gontsana
20 JAN
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Covid-19: Long, tightly packed queues outside labour department add to UIF applicants’ woes

Ashraf Hendricks
14 JAN
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When you have to spend R120 to access your R350 social grant

Loyiso Dyongman
14 JAN
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Rhodes students left in the lurch: Exams delayed, funding not extended for food and accommodation

Bheki C. Simelane
13 DEC
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Black Sash to fight cancellation of caregiver top-up grant

Estelle Ellis
29 OCT
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