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

Liezl Human for GroundUp
14 APR

For vulnerable households, the right to dignified existence warps into torture at the till point

Georgina Crouth
06 APR

ConCourt orders CPS to hand over documents showing social grant profits

Tania Broughton
01 APR

Call for Child Support Grant to include poor pregnant women

Marecia Damons
19 MAR

Sassa vows to meet its disability grant deadline despite backlog

Mary-Anne Gontsana
04 MAR

Covid-19 leaves Zim immigrants desperate for help with food in SA

Tariro Washinyira
03 MAR

Bathabile Dlamini spits Twitter fire after pension block

Ferial Haffajee
02 MAR

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

Christi Nortier
24 FEB

Brutality against grant recipients highlights urgent need for reform in public order policing

Sean Tait and Mary Rayner
23 FEB

The vulnerable suffer as grant recipients are thrown into admin hell

Estelle Ellis
06 FEB

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

Zukiswa Pikoli
29 JAN

Lindiwe Zulu urged to introduce new child grant

Liezl Human for GroundUp
27 JAN

Eyebrows raised over amount of Western Cape Sassa disability applications as water cannon inquiries continue

Suné Payne
22 JAN

Disability grants: Sassa promises to clear Western Cape backlog by end of March

Mary-Anne Gontsana
21 JAN

SASSA office only serves 50 people a day. This is what it looked like at 1:30pm

Thamsanqa Mbovane for GroundUp
21 JAN

Covid-19 grant beneficiaries pay up to R150 for a place in Post Office queue

Nompendulo Ngubane for GroundUp
20 JAN

Police probe use of water cannon against social grant applicants

Mary-Anne Gontsana
20 JAN

Covid-19: Long, tightly packed queues outside labour department add to UIF applicants’ woes

Ashraf Hendricks
14 JAN

When you have to spend R120 to access your R350 social grant

Loyiso Dyongman
14 JAN

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

Bheki C. Simelane
13 DEC

Black Sash to fight cancellation of caregiver top-up grant

Estelle Ellis
29 OCT