Image: Ashraf Hendricks, GroundUp In January we reported that the parliamentary portfolio committee for social development had decided that it wanted a full investigation into the entire social grant payment system. The reason given was that committee members were concerned about the integrity of the social relief of distress (SRD) and other grants that were Read more >
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Image: Barbara Maregele for GroundUp Things may finally be heating up for corrupt Sassa officials, more than a decade after Corruption Watch (CW) helped expose widespread corruption in the distribution and payment of social grants. In 2013 CW, as amicus curiae in the case between AllPay Consolidated Investment Holdings and the South African Social Security Read more >
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The Covid-19 social relief of distress (SRD) grant amounting to R350 has been rolled out as an important mechanism to address immediate hunger and impoverishment which has worsened under the lockdown. This new grant was promised to all unemployed South Africans without income between the ages of 18 and 59 years. While the speed of Read more >