Special GroundUp series on social grants
ANALYSIS
3 July 2020
Food and social grant commitments have fallen woefully short
By Jeremy Seekings
BRIEF
1 July 2020
Frustrated grant beneficiaries had to travel to other offices
By Buziwe Nocuze
NEWS
30 June 2020
About 129,136 foster care orders will expire on 26 November 2020
By Liezl Human
17 June 2020
SA Social Security Agency seems unable to administer social grant payments
By Lena Gronbach
5 June 2020
People are bringing chairs and tents and staying all night so that they can get their grants
By Ashraf Hendricks and Zoë Postman
27 May 2020
“I noticed that most people getting served were those who had camped here the night before, so I decided to join them”
By Johnnie Isaac
26 May 2020
SASSA says it’s only accepting online applications for the Covid-19 Relief Grant
21 May 2020
The line outside the offices in Long Street has been snaking for days
Photos by Ashraf Hendricks
19 May 2020
Many South Africans have no income
13 May 2020
Scuffles break out as desperate people try to get to the front of the queue
12 May 2020
“We do not have any other choice but to wait”
OPINION
If you want people to stay home and businesses to stay shut, you have to pay them to do so
By Gilad Isaacs
6 May 2020
Nearly 600,000 grant payments duplicated on Monday
By Zoë Postman
5 May 2020
Finally, beneficiaries are paid their grants, after delay
By Nompendulo Ngubane
4 May 2020
SASSA KZN says benefiaries will be paid by Tuesday
29 April 2020
Activists and academics say government’s grant increases are a “way of appearing generous while actually reducing the disaster relief budget”
By Tania Broughton
