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SASSA provides various much-needed grants in South Africa, including a disability grant to those eligible. How much is disability grant in South Africa?
Analyses of the implications of extending income support measures in South Africa, including a basic income grant, have focused on one of three things: how much it will cost, calculations about ...
South Africa is considering almost doubling the threshold for poor people to obtain a monthly cash stipend, as they contend with consumer prices accelerating at the fastest pace in more than five ...
South Africa’s social relief grant has enabled recipients to search for work or start small businesses.
Policy-making in South Africa is a detailed and thorough process. The Maternity Support Grant has been in development for over a decade, going through numerous studies, consultations, and workshops.
South Africa has secured $676 million in grants from rich nations for a transition to green energy, more than double what they initially promised but still only a fraction of the total package ...
New corruption-busting efforts have caused grant money to go unspent The National Lotteries Commission (NLC) told Parliament on Tuesday that its efforts to curb corruption have caused ...
South Africa's social relief grant is likely to be extended beyond next March, economists said, which may add an unbudgeted 50 billion rand ($2.6 billion) to state expenses and require difficult ...
Local news Newcastle Advertiser Understanding all the SASSA grants in South Africa Grants are all designed to uphold the right to social protection for the vulnerable in our society.
Explore the struggles of South Africans relying on social grants, as a family of twelve shares their challenges in making ends meet amidst rising living costs.
The literature has analyzed the link between social grants, means-tested and unconditional on employment, and employment in South Africa. The country’s social grant expenditure is relatively large ...
Thousands of social grant recipients in the North West are abandoning their South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) cards in favour of personal bank accounts. This comes as the portfolio ...