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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

What happened to the Covid-19 special grant?

Business Dennis Webster - 27 May 2020

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

Article Sabelo Skiti - 29 Apr 2020

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

Analysis The Pietermaritzburg Pensioners Forum - 23 Apr 2020

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

Article Thando Maeko & Tshegofatso Mathe - 23 Apr 2020

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

Article Lester Kiewit - 10 Apr 2020

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

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...

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

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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

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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

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