Special GroundUp series on social grants
People are bringing chairs and tents and staying all night so that they can get their grants
By Ashraf Hendricks and Zoë Postman
News | 5 June 2020
“I noticed that most people getting served were those who had camped here the night before, so I decided to join them”
Brief | 27 May 2020
SASSA says it’s only accepting online applications for the Covid-19 Relief Grant
News | 26 May 2020
The line outside the offices in Long Street has been snaking for days
Photos by Ashraf Hendricks
News | 21 May 2020
Many South Africans have no income
Analysis | 19 May 2020
Scuffles break out as desperate people try to get to the front of the queue
News | 13 May 2020
“We do not have any other choice but to wait”
News | 12 May 2020
If you want people to stay home and businesses to stay shut, you have to pay them to do so
By Gilad Isaacs
Opinion | 12 May 2020
Nearly 600,000 grant payments duplicated on Monday
By Zoë Postman
Brief | 6 May 2020
Finally, beneficiaries are paid their grants, after delay
News | 5 May 2020
SASSA KZN says benefiaries will be paid by Tuesday
Brief | 4 May 2020
Activists and academics say government’s grant increases are a “way of appearing generous while actually reducing the disaster relief budget”
News | 29 April 2020
Emergency grant was paid out to hundreds of thousands within three weeks
By Jeremy Seekings, Lena Gronbach and Nicoli Nattrass
Analysis | 29 April 2020
An in-depth analysis of the social grants component of the relief package
Analysis | 23 April 2020
Corruption Watch slams “legal manoeuverings by CPS to avoid paying its debt to the fiscus”
By Zoë Postman
News | 22 April 2020
A rapid increase in hunger levels in the poorest households undermines people’s ability to comply with the lockdown
Opinion | 21 April 2020