Latest articles on SASSA

Pillar to post office

Opinion Solomon Makgale - 9 Sep 2020

If President Cyril Ramaphosa’s crackdown on corruption is to succeed, new rules for lobbying and tenders need to be implemented

Auditor general points to the state’s flaws enabling Covid-19 graft

National Lester Kiewit - 2 Sep 2020

AG Kimi Makwetu’s ‘real-time’ audit of contracts and relief schemes indicate ‘a higher risk of fraud and abuse of funds’

Basic income grant on the cards as Covid-19 threat intensifies

Business Sarah Smit - 13 Jul 2020

The pandemic has triggered a global economic crisis that will leave many South Africans without income security

Sassa disses disability grant applicants

Coronavirus Paddy Harper - 2 Jul 2020

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

Real relief requires the reform of state recruitment

Coronavirus Thokozani Chilenga Butao - 17 Jun 2020

Covid-19 has exposed, among a host of other things, the glaring gaps that appear when the wrong people have been put in the job

Children who trade are an important part of the economy

Coronavirus Keabetswe Mogosoane - 27 May 2020

The government should do more to develop and upskill these young entrepreneurs who are already street smart

Ramaphosa announces R500-billion Covid-19 package for South Africa

Article Beauregard Tromp & Sipho Kings - 21 Apr 2020

President announces an ‘extraordinary coronavirus budget’ with R20-billion for healthcare and spending on the pandemic equal to 10% of national GDP

Land reform is about more than just land

Article Anna Majavu - 13 Jan 2020

On paper, the Bino family of Kowa (formerly Elliot), Eastern Cape, are a land reform success story. In 2000, they applied with their relatives...

Dlamini’s departure ends a career characterised by incompetence and arrogance

Article Natasha Marrian - 11 Jun 2019

ANCWL president remains defiant and plays the victim to the end as she bows out as an MP

Bathabile Dlamini the latest to resign from Parliament

Article Eyaaz Matwadia - 11 Jun 2019

The ANC Women’s League president is the third MP to walk away in two days

Net1 subsidiary goes to court to compel Sassa to pay grants into its accounts

Article Athandiwe Saba - 26 Nov 2018

Moneyline claims that the South African Social Security Agency has moved beneficiaries to the South African Post Office against their will

Offline horrors hit home affairs

Article M&G Data Desk - 23 Nov 2018

One of the department’s centres was unavailable for 130 out of SA’s 248 working days in the past year

Sassa: Get new cards or risk not getting grant payouts

Article Gemma Ritchie - 12 Nov 2018

The social security agency says it will not extend the December deadline to switch to the new Sassa cards

Dlamini, Gigaba ‘acted dishonestly’, not fit to hold office — DA

Article Jeanette Chabalala - 23 Oct 2018

The DA filed papers in the high court on Monday, challenging President Cyril Ramaphosa's reappointment of Malusi Gigaba and Bathabile Dlamini

Bathabile Dlamini slapped with court costs, possible perjury probe

Article Athandiwe Saba - 27 Sep 2018

The Constitutional Court has ruled that Bathabile Dlamini is personally liable for 20% of costs of last year's Sassa debacle

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Pillar to post office

Auditor general points to the state’s flaws enabling Covid-19 graft

Basic income grant on the cards as Covid-19 threat intensifies

Sassa disses disability grant applicants

Real relief requires the reform of state recruitment

Children who trade are an important part of the economy

Ramaphosa announces R500-billion Covid-19 package for South Africa

Land reform is about more than just land

Dlamini’s departure ends a career characterised by incompetence and arrogance

Bathabile Dlamini the latest to resign from Parliament

Net1 subsidiary goes to court to compel Sassa to pay grants into its accounts

Offline horrors hit home affairs

Sassa: Get new cards or risk not getting grant payouts

Dlamini, Gigaba ‘acted dishonestly’, not fit to hold office — DA

Bathabile Dlamini slapped with court costs, possible perjury probe

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