Corporate South Africa is rolling out the big guns to spike momentum towards a universal basic income grant that threatens to expose their sick graveyard economy
Critics argue that South Africa’s latest submission to the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights is a unilateral and fraught exercise
Human rights organisations are advocating a state safety net for the millions of South Africans who have been left hungry after the R350 social relief of distress grant was discontinued on 30 April
Towards the end of level four of the lockdown, Sassa offices reopened for applications for old age pensions and childcare and foster care grants, but not for disability grants
Civil society has fought against the worst of the breaches — securitisation, corruption, secrecy
Colin Coleman and Cyril Ramaphosa go way back, and the Goldman Sachs banker has the ear of ANC policy gurus
The process of setting up the new body to help safeguard our democracy has met with obstacles
In May last year the high court ruled that CPS could continue to deduct money for airtime, loans and electricity from social grant beneficiaries
‘The way her version has moved leads one to the conclusion that there has been deception’
The tender deadline was originally postponed from February 28, and risks being postponed again.
Under cross-examination the social development minister dodged questions about her ‘work streams’ and her role in the 2017 social grants crisis
The ConCourt appointed Ngoepe to head the inquiry into whether Dlamini should be held personally liable for the costs incurred during Sassa crisis.
Dlamini said the procurement process will last for three months, from July through September
Stealing computers from the chief justice goes to the heart of questions about our democracy.
Dlamini did not apologise for her late submission, but instead said she had ‘made every reasonable effort to comply with this court’s directives’.
The social welfare agency could not answer pointed questions on the grants crisis by 4pm and said the court cannot dictate how much it should pay CPS.
Minister Bathabile Dlamini sought to suggest that President Jacob Zuma is satisfied with her performance.
Read the directions from the Constitutional Court in the Sassa/Black Sash matter.
Sassa received more that 1 000 complaints from social grant beneficiaries about deductions for funeral policies and electricity.
Mary Burton, a former president of the Black Sash, remembers the origins of the organisation.
The fight for women’s rights has too often been stigmatised and ignored in favour of race politics.
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/ 23 September 2011
Without the government’s child support grant many South Africans would be living in dire poverty, according to a study released last week.
Within a month of the death of its patron, Sheena Duncan, the Black Sash has lost a second stalwart.
Within a month of the death of its patron, Sheena Duncan, the Black Sash has lost a second stalwart.