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What happened to the Covid-19 special grant?
The newly established grant intended to bring informal economy workers into South Africa’s social security net during the lockdown has had a disastrous start
Sassa system ignores digital divide
Sassa is keen to try out online registration to process applications for the Covid-19 relief grant, but NGOs are wary because not all intended beneficiaries are able to access data
Hunger is as big a threat as Covid
For the many that rely on pension grants, Sassa’s seemingly simple date change has severe ramifications
Covid-19 grant top-up is for caregivers, not children
Sassa says grants to an extra six million people who lose jobs, on top of 18-million beneficiaries, means it can’t give as much to child support grants
Homeless but ready for Covid-19
A 71-year-old’s car is his home and that is where he says he will reluctantly ride out the pandemic
Land reform is about more than just land
On paper, the Bino family of Kowa (formerly Elliot), Eastern Cape, are a land reform success story. In 2000, they applied...
Dlamini’s departure ends a career characterised by incompetence and arrogance
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
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
Moneyline claims that the South African Social Security Agency has moved beneficiaries to the South African Post Office against their will
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High Court strikes down ‘paternalistic’ lockdown regulations
The order of unconstitutionality has been suspended for two weeks
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Under level four of the Covid-19 lockdown, the hours from 6am to 9am became the time when inner-city residents could use local parks to escape the nightmare around them
Pharmacists, denied frontline status, get PPE late
Pharmacists at one of the major public hospitals in Gauteng say they only received sufficient protective gear after several of their colleagues contracted Covid-19.
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