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Many recipients of the R370-a-month Social Relief of Distress (SRD) grant say they are battling with SASSA’s online verification system. Archive photo: Ashraf Hendricks

Health & Social Welfare

Social grants go unpaid as beneficiaries struggle with Sassa’s system

Marecia Damons 12 Jun 2025

Financial Services

Cabinet sent basic income grant plan back to the drawing board

Marecia Damons 9 Jun 2025

SIM card provider dodges law

Telecoms & Networks

SIM card provider dodges law

Veer Gosai and Joel Cedras 23 May 2025

KlevaMova customers travel on the Gautrain free this weekend

Transport

KlevaMova customers travel on the Gautrain free this weekend

20 May 2025

OK Zimbabwe's majority shareholders back $30m rights issue, CEO says

Retailers

OK Zimbabwe's majority shareholders back $30m rights issue, CEO says

Chris Muronzi 8 May 2025

The Department of Social Development is proposing changes to the Social Assistance Act, including removing questions about the income of applicants for the R370-a-month Social Relief of Distress (SRD) grant. Archive photo: Mosima Rafapa/GroundUp

Health & Social Welfare

Department of Social Development proposes changes to SRD grant application

Marecia Damons 9 Apr 2025

Marketing budgets: A catalyst for ESG transformation

ESG

Marketing budgets: A catalyst for ESG transformation

Sipetile Sixishe, Issued by Motherland OMNi 3 Apr 2025

Health & Social Welfare

Another extension for Sassa beneficiaries to switch to black cards

1 Apr 2025

Treasury takes aim at foreign pensions

Taxation & Regulation

Treasury takes aim at foreign pensions

David Warneke, Issued by SAICA 24 Mar 2025

Sassa presented its audit action plan to Parliament on Wednesday. Archive photo of people queueing for social grants in Eerste River in 2018. Photo: Ashraf Hendricks / GroundUp

Health & Social Welfare

Sassa explains why it paid grants to 75,000 dead people

Marecia Damons 24 Mar 2025

The deadline for the transition from the SASSA Gold Card to the Black Card is looming. Archive photo: Marecia Damons / GroundUp

Health & Social Welfare

About 1.9m people still need to swap gold cards as Sassa deadline looms

Marecia Damons 5 Mar 2025

Deadline for Sassa card transition extended to 20 March 2025

Health & Social Welfare

Deadline for Sassa card transition extended to 20 March 2025

14 Feb 2025

The new Postbank Black Card for Sassa beneficiaries. The current Gold Cards will expire on 28 February 2025 and social grant beneficiaries are urged to get their new cards before then. Photo supplied by Sassa

Health & Social Welfare

Sassa Gold cards to stop working on 28 February 2025 - beneficiaries urged to replace them

13 Feb 2025

Image source: Emiliano Arano from

Climate Change

A hot and troubled world of work: How South Africa’s bold new climate act and labour law can align to drive a just transition

Debbie Collier 29 Jan 2025

The South African Social Security Agency is to suspend payment of Social Relief of Distress grants where fraud is suspected. Archive photo: Barbara Maregele / GroundUp

Health & Social Welfare

Sassa to suspend SRD grants where fraud is suspected

Marecia Damons 22 Jan 2025

HR & Management

Community work contracts extended for participants aged 55 and older

17 Jan 2025

#BizTrends2025: Curating the future - the transformation of food security in South Africa

Trends

#BizTrends2025: Curating the future - the transformation of food security in South Africa

Alan Browde 13 Jan 2025

Eight months after publishing its last report, the Office of the Chief Justice has finally released the new list of reserved judgments. The High Court in Pretoria had the highest number of late judgments, with 59 matters outstanding for longer than six months. Archive photo: Ashraf Hendricks / GroundUp

Law Practice

Hundreds of court judgments are late

Marecia Damons 19 Dec 2024

Deadline looms for NSFAS applications

Bursaries, Scholarships & Finance

Deadline looms for NSFAS applications

11 Dec 2024

Healthcare

Social protection was always meant to be in the plan – where did it all go wrong?

18 Nov 2024

Source: Supplied. Rex Cowley, director and co-founder of Overseas Trust and Pension.

Financial Services

Beyond borders: How foreign pensions empower South Africans to build global wealth

18 Nov 2024

Wage inequality in top ten South African retailers. Graphic: using data from

Remuneration & Payroll

Why wage inequality matters

Kwanele Ngogela and Mathieu Dasnois 15 Nov 2024

Markets & Investment

US bond sell-off: A harbinger of things to come?

12 Nov 2024

Source: © 123rf there is cautious optimism on the country's economic trajectory on the eve of the MTBPS

Economy

#MTBPS predictions: A cautious optimism signals new phase of stability and growth

29 Oct 2024

Image source: Le Moal Olivier –

Tax Law

Can Sars take your pension to settle tax debt?

Graeme Palmer 21 Oct 2024

For more than six weeks the Unemployment Insurance Fund online service has been down. Image: GroundUp

HR Tools & Software

After six weeks UIF online system still down

Mary-Anne Gontsana 4 Oct 2024

More than 17 million people applied for the R370 grant in September

Health & Social Welfare

More than 17 million people applied for the R370 grant in September

Marecia Damons 3 Oct 2024

Parliament heard the Special Investigating Unit’s head advocate last week testify about medico-legal fraud. Archive photo: Ashraf Hendricks / GroundUp

Medical Law

SIU takes aim at ballooning dodgy medical litigation that is costing the government billions

Sandiso Phaliso 13 Sep 2024

Socal grant applicants queue at the Eerste River Sassa office. Archive photo: Ashraf Hendricks / GroundUp

Health & Social Welfare

Rules for R370-a-month social grant to be challenged in court in October

Marecia Damons 3 Sep 2024

Image source: Sasin Paraksa –

Trends

Is the green economy the key to job creation in Africa?

2 Aug 2024

Queues for social grants in Kuyasa, Cape Town. Beneficiaries of the Social Relief of Distress Grant are struggling with identity verification processes. Archive photo: Mary-Anne Gontsana / GroundUp

Health & Social Welfare

Beneficiaries are still battling with Sassa’s new biometric system

Marecia Damons 31 Jul 2024

Source: Anthony Fomin/Unsplash

Skills Development

Decent work is the key to a sustainable building industry

2 Jul 2024

Some SRD grant beneficiaries with green ID books have been struggling to access their R370-per-month grant due to a new identity verification process. Archive photo: Mosima Rafapa / GroundUp

Health & Social Welfare

Here’s why people with green ID books are struggling with Sassa’s new verification process

Marecia Damons 27 Jun 2024

Medical Aid

NHI Bill impact: Dispelling misconceptions around medical schemes

18 Jun 2024

Source: Supplied.

Land Policy, Reform & Restitution

Sustainable redistribution of land remains crucial to human rights in South Africa, as political parties jostle for voter support

Peter Setou 27 Mar 2024

Health & Social Welfare

R350 grant to increase in April

14 Mar 2024

Image source: Vitaliy Vodolazskyy –

Health & Social Welfare

#BudgetSpeech2024: Social grants to increase in 2024

21 Feb 2024

Deadline today for university funding in South Africa

Higher Education

Deadline today for university funding in South Africa

Imran Salie 31 Jan 2024

Over one million NSFAS bursary applications received

Higher Education

Over one million NSFAS bursary applications received

29 Jan 2024

Image source: Ryan Miguel Capili from

Legal

Sassa clarifies report on 74,000 deceased ghost accounts

12 Jan 2024

Source: Supplied.

Financial Services

Sassa cash paypoints to be phased out by April 2024

27 Dec 2023

Image source: Kindel Media from

Criminal Law

July unrest 'instigator' Mdumiseni Zuma slapped with 12-year jail sentence

30 Nov 2023

NSFAS opens bursary applications for 2024 academic year

Bursaries, Scholarships & Finance

NSFAS opens bursary applications for 2024 academic year

22 Nov 2023

NSFAS applications open next week

Bursaries, Scholarships & Finance

NSFAS applications open next week

13 Nov 2023

Image source: Nataliya Vaitkevich from

Management & Leadership

Tax implications of changes to employer status

Denny Da Silva 10 Nov 2023

Image source: michael spring –

Health & Social Welfare

Disability grant applicants can lodge an appeal - Sassa

2 Nov 2023

Photo: Facebook, Sassa News

Health & Social Welfare

Sassa gold cards remain valid in December and beyond

31 Oct 2023

Source: Supplied.

Financial Services

No glitches expected with October grant payment cycle, says Mpumalanga Sassa

4 Oct 2023

Image source: Vitaliy Vodolazskyy –

Health & Social Welfare

Officials working to ensure smooth payment of grants in October

22 Sep 2023