It believes it can bridge an unbreachable divide — but, don’t worry, there is apparently another plan
Opposition parties criticised Dlamini for being negligent and unprepared, during a meeting to detail the department’s plans regarding grant payments.
Correspondence suggests that Bathabile Dlamini’s approach was to make Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan jointly responsible for Sassa’s plan of action.
The social development department’s ability to continue to make monthly welfare payments to about 17-million people is in jeopardy.
"Most child support grant beneficiaries say it’s impossible to get by on R350 a month."
No one’s sure whether, come April 1, social grants will be paid out as the agency bungles the process of bringing the system in-house
Bidders hoping to be part of Sassa’s grant payment system from April 1 have only a few details to get grants to 17-million people.
Sassa missed a critical deadline this week
A detailed inspection of the paper trail finds that the work claimed for was covered by an all-inclusive fee.
A detailed inspection of the paper trail finds that the work claimed for was covered by an all-inclusive fee.
Sassa received more that 1 000 complaints from social grant beneficiaries about deductions for funeral policies and electricity.
Minister Edna Molewa says the Mail & Guardian had not reported about her role in the Sassa case fairly.
For millions of South Africans, the monthly social grants are the difference between survival and starvation.
Every month, money is deducted from the accounts of hundreds of beneficiaries of social grants without their permission.
The government’s social security payment system is managed by a subsidiary of Net1, a company listed on stock exchanges in the US and Johannesburg.
Some social grant beneficiaries are so deeply in debt that much of each month’s grant goes to paying back a loan.
South Africa has disability grants but a doctor deemed his tuberculosis patient was not poor enough.
Society’s most vulnerable are at the mercy of micro-lenders and trapped in a vicious cycle of debt
The DA has lost the case it brought against Marius Fransman and other figures, who were accused of canvassing for votes with food parcels.
The DA has accused Western Cape ANC chair Marius Fransman and Sassa CEO Virginia Petersen of handing out food parcels while campaigning for the ANC.
The DA says it will approach the public protector to investigate Sassa’s apparent spending of R10-million on security protection for top personnel.
Sassa wants the Concourt to "turn its back" on an unlawful, R10-billion social grants tender, because risk of disrupting grant payments is too high.
The ANC’s Pule Mabe has been arrested with two others, allegedly in connection with illegally soliciting funds from SA’s social grants agency.
Although Michael Hulley was appointed "strategic adviser" for a state grant deal, he played "no role" in its adjudication, the Concourt has heard.
The Financial Services Board has criticised owners of a company with a contract to pay social grants for peddling funeral insurance to SA’s poorest.
The Institute of Race Relations argued in a report this week, that grants have been crucial to improved living standards over the past decade.
Sassa has received a lashing from the judge, who in a strongly worded judgment called its conduct "procedurally unfair" and "invalid".
The North Gauteng High Court has ruled that the R10-billion social grant tender awarded to Cash Paymaster Services by Sassa is illegal and invalid.
A who’s who of the companies behind the billion-rand social grants tender has shown a lot of contradictions, and revealed more links to Tokyo Sewale.
BEE firm that will reap rewards from huge payout tender refuses to reveal its shareholders
AllPay says specifications for mega grant payments tender were changed at the last minute so that its competitor, Cash Paymaster Services,could win.
The South African Social Security Agency risks not fulfilling its mandate by getting caught up in the messy business that it is "tenders".