For more than seventy years, Black Sash has been part of South Africa’s story. Today, it is focused on one of the most practical and powerful levers for change: making sure the…
The Johannesburg high court found the company’s product was at odds with the National Credit Act
Corporate South Africa is rolling out the big guns to spike momentum towards a universal basic income grant that threatens to expose their sick graveyard economy
Critics argue that South Africa’s latest submission to the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights is a unilateral and fraught exercise
Human rights organisations are advocating a state safety net for the millions of South Africans who have been left hungry after the R350 social relief of distress grant was…
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
Civil society has fought against the worst of the breaches — securitisation, corruption, secrecy
Colin Coleman and Cyril Ramaphosa go way back, and the Goldman Sachs banker has the ear of ANC policy gurus
The process of setting up the new body to help safeguard our democracy has met with obstacles
In May last year the high court ruled that CPS could continue to deduct money for airtime, loans and electricity from social grant beneficiaries
‘The way her version has moved leads one to the conclusion that there has been deception’
The tender deadline was originally postponed from February 28, and risks being postponed again.
Under cross-examination the social development minister dodged questions about her ‘work streams’ and her role in the 2017 social grants crisis
The ConCourt appointed Ngoepe to head the inquiry into whether Dlamini should be held personally liable for the costs incurred during Sassa crisis.
Dlamini said the procurement process will last for three months, from July through September
