Social grants decrease teenage girls' risk of contracting HIV
Child support grants can protect teenage girls from sugar daddies.
Welfare could be Gini in the bottle
Inequality barometer is far lower than officially calculated if grants are taken into account.
But when the bough breaks ...
‘Baby bins' can mean the difference between life – and death at the bottom of a trash can.
South Africa's heftiest felines for 2012
From President Fat Cat's stinky Nkandla deal to the Capitec cats who creamed it fat cats risked obesity in 2012, write the amaBhungane reporters.
Social grant contractor's sideline plan
The controversial R10-billion tender winner, South African Social Services Agency, wants to sell financial products to 10-million state beneficiaries.
Editorial: Don't short-change the poor
The Institute of Race Relations argued in a report this week, that grants have been crucial to improved living standards over the past decade.
How government starves the welfare sector
Cash-strapped groups plead for more funds: Subsidies have fallen so short of the needs of NGOs that many face imminent closure, writes Heidi Swart.
Grant recipients move with the times
More and more people are opting to receive their social grants electronically rather than in cash, according to a report released this week.
State calls AllPay a 'sore loser'
AllPay says specifications for mega grant payments tender were changed at the last minute so that its competitor, Cash Paymaster Services,could win.
Zuma's lawyer and the mega tender
President Jacob Zuma's lawyer Michael Hulley has played various roles in the drawn-out awarding of a disputed multi-billion rand contract.
Open-chequebook bribe unreported
Adjudicators of a previous social-grants tender failed to tell the police about the bribe.
Social grants aimed for shake up
Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini says the re-registration of more than 15-million social grant beneficiaries will begin on March 1.
R10bn grant tender sparks court battle
A social grants payment contract has sparked a court battle because it was awarded to foreign firm with a chequered past in South Africa.
Social grants: 15.3-million people to register again
In an attempt to curb fraud, the Social Security Agency has announced those receiving social grants will have to re-register to get benefits.
Stores score on pension payday
There are moves afoot to overhaul the social grant payout system to make it less cumbersome as some grant recipients wait hours in queues.
Cosatu says SA's youth live in terrible conditions
Young people in South Africa live in terrible socioeconomic conditions, the Congress of South African Trade Unions has said.
Social grants cost billions
Contractors take huge chunk of budget.
Child support grant could extend to 18-year-olds
The child support grant could soon be extended to children up to the age of 18 after the emergence of "compelling new evidence", Manuel said.
MPs approve government spending adjustments
Parliament's finance committee on Wednesday approved the Adjustment Appropriation Bill with some misgivings.
[Video] Grants: Short-changed in long queues
Social grants are a bonanza for retail stores that act as payouts for thousands of South Africans every month. The M&G joins the queue at a superstore.
