Aside from health benefits, cash transfers have enabled beneficiaries to acquire assets such as livestock and seed, freed children to attend school.
Grandmothers are often left to raise unwanted kids. Surika van Schalkwyk looks at the struggles they face.
African National Congress president Jacob Zuma on Thursday addressed a gathering of more than 1 000 poor white Pretoria residents.
The Act that qualifies men to apply for the state old-age grant from the age of 60 has been signed into law.
The government is considering increasing the value of social grants in order to soften the blow of high food prices.