CHAINS OF POVERTY Time for SA to ditch the myths and get behind a universal basic income grant, say researchers 7 min 8 By Ufrieda Ho
GROUNDUP More than 17m people in SA applied for the R370 SRD grant in September 2 min 2 By Marecia Damons
SRD GRANT Grant recipients battle with new biometric verification process amid payment delays 6 min 1 By Takudzwa Pongweni
STEALING FROM THE POOR OP-ED More distress — how scammers defraud Sassa grant recipients 4 min 1 By Israel Nkuna
FIXING THE ECONOMY OP-ED The Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement needs to break with our recent and current failed national fiscal strategy 4 min 2 By Zimbali Mncube and Vuyisiwe Mahafu
GROUNDUP OP-ED Basic income grant — separating the facts from the populism 4 min 5 By Vuyisiwe Mahafu
GROUNDUP SRD HOLD-UP Sassa warns of delays with R350-grant payments for August 1 min 0 By Marecia Damons
POVERTY AND HUNGER Rising global cost of living is a looming human rights crisis in southern Africa 5 min 0 By Mandipa Machacha and Nkululeko Majozi
GROSS NEGLIGENCE 4,452 families in need, only 141 food parcels distributed – how the Eastern Cape department of social development is failing the most vulnerable citizens 4 min 1 By Estelle Ellis
GROUNDUP SOCIAL ASSISTANCE DELAYS Sassa beneficiaries unable to access grants via Post Office — Black Sash 2 min 0 By Liezl Human for GroundUp
GROUNDUP Seven million already signed up for R350 grant, budget caters for 10.5 million applicants only 2 min 2 By Marecia Damons
HUNGER While children starve to death, Eastern Cape government blames contractor for slow food parcel delivery 3 min 1 By Estelle Ellis
HUNGER Seven children starve to death, others fight for their lives while malnutrition ravages Eastern Cape 4 min 9 By Estelle Ellis
SERVICE DELIVERY FAILURE Impoverished Karoo communities in jeopardy as post offices run into financial trouble 5 min 0 By Estelle Ellis
GroundUp OP-ED Universal social security is now a matter of urgency in South Africa 4 min 2 By Abongile Nkamisa Ariella Scher
GROUND-UP Bureaucratic pitfalls barring mothers and caregivers from accessing Social Relief of Distress grant 4 min 0 By Masego Mafata
GroundUp: MIGRANT MISERY Save the Children points to mounting food crisis facing immigrant children in South Africa 4 min 0 By Kimberly Mutandiro for GroundUp
A GAME CHANGER? Basic Income Grant on the table for South Africa’s unemployed poor 3 min 0 By Sandisiwe Shoba
Maverick Citizen Op-Ed Ramaphosa’s Covid-19 stimulus: Income relief is not ‘the awful indignity of charitable handouts’ 4 min 0 By Isobel Frye
Analysis South Africa’s 24-hour trend report – 16 April 2020 6 min 0 By Centre for Analytics and Behavioural Change
