As the country watched the drama unfolding at the State of the Nation address on Thursday evening, there was very little focus on the president’s actual speech and whether South Africa had shown any positive progress over the past year. Public attention was focused on the EFF, whose members were[…]
Advocacy group Black Sash has welcomed the National Minister for Social Development’s announcement that her department, along with the South African Social Security Agency (Sassa), would pursue legal action against Cash Paymasters Services (CPS). The move relates to allegations that CPS was conducting unauthorized deductions from the accounts of social[…]
Nearly 2.3 million social grant recipients have fallen victim to an alarming trend of deductions in recent months, which local advocacy group Black Sash has blamed on unscrupulous lenders within the social grants system. VOC News has been inundated with complaints from community members, who have been the victim of[…]
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