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Pensioners

SANParks aims to alleviate poverty in WC with community social legacy programme

By Dominic Majola

SANParks has gifted a group of pensioners from Wilderness Heights on the Garden Route with food gardening tools and the relevant licences to fish.

  • FILE: Picture: Sethembiso Zulu/EWN

    Conditions at Orlando Post Office criticised as pension payments wrap up

    Like many centres nationwide, the queues outside the Orlando Post Office have been extremely long, with some of the beneficiaries arriving in the early hours of the morning to try and be among the first to receive their grants.

    787 days ago
  • FILE: Social Development Minister Lindiwe Zulu. Picture: @GovernmentZA/Twitter

    Zulu apologises for Sassa glitches that left some grant recipients empty-handed

    Things got off to a shaky start on Monday in some parts of the country with hundreds of pensioners returning home empty-handed following a shortage of funds and payment glitches at several pay points.

    787 days ago
  • The elderly at the Post office in Pimville are observing social distancing. They also all have masks on and they are sanitised at the door. Picture: Kgomotso Modise/EWN

    'The queue is moving fast': Pimville pensioners praise govt's grant system

    Pensioners will also receive R250 more for the next six months as part of government’s COVID-19 relief programme.

    787 days ago
  • Pensioner Anne Snyman leaves Mitchells Plain's Town Centre after collecting her pension payout on 30 March 2020. She said she stood in line for six hours. Picture: Kaylynn Palm/EWN

    Technical error sees WC Sassa recipients receive duplicate payments

    Sassa said that about 83% of clients would have received duplicate payments unless the banks were able to reverse this prior to clients accessing their grants.

    788 days ago
  • The elderly practice social distancing while waiting to collect their Sassa grants from the Diepsloot Mall. Picture: Kayleen Morgan/EWN

    Pensioners to use grants to buy masks to prevent them contracting COVID-19

    This is the last day pensioners and people with disabilities can collect their grants before other beneficiaries join the queues.

    822 days ago
  • FILE: Pensioners standing in line as they wait to withdraw their monthly monies from a Sassa pay point at Shoprite in Mitchells Plain, Cape Town. Picture: Lauren Isaacs/EWN

    Grant for pensioners to increase to at least R1,780 monthly

    The foster care grant goes up to R1,000 a month while the child support grant will increase to R420 in April, and further to R430 by October.

    1227 days ago
  • An elderly couple. Picture: Pixabay.com

    [OPINION] The agility of the aged

    Haji Mohamed Dawjee says there are lessons to be learnt from older people that go far beyond their engaging storytelling.

    1303 days ago
  • FILE: Pensioners take part in a demonstration outside the Ministry of Finance against planned pension reforms, in central Athens, 25 April, 2018. Picture: AFP

    These countries are gaining the most by employing older workers

    Humans are living longer, which puts additional strain on healthcare provision, social care and pensions.

    1411 days ago
  • FILE: Picture: Thomas Holder/EWN.

    City of CT rolls out health screening services for old people

    Persons aged 65 years and older will benefit from the initiative that sets out to improve their access to public health services.

    1735 days ago
  • Picture: SAPS

    WC pensioner (68) gets 3 years behind bars for fraud

    Jacobus Lambrechts offered false investment opportunities in property developments between 2007 and 2008.

    2205 days ago
  • FILE: Pensioners protest at Parliament on 5 May 2016. Picture: Xolani Koyana/EWN.

    ANC in Parly confident pensioner concerns can be resolved

    Pensioners of the Ciskei Transport Corporation in 80s have been battling to get pensions paid out to them.

    2245 days ago
  • FILE: Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini. Picture: Facebook.

    Grant beneficiaries to be refunded as new rules introduced

    Beneficiaries who’ve had money deducted from their grants without authorisation will be refunded.

    2246 days ago
  • Bathabile Dlamini. Picture: Reinart Toerien/EWN.

    Social Development Dept introduces new regulations to curb corruption

    This includes a new rule that a beneficiary must first give Sassa permission in writing before any deduction.

    2247 days ago
  • Pensioners protest at Parliament on 5 May 2016. Picture: Xolani Koyana/EWN.

    Pensioners protest outside Parliament over payouts

    The group has blocked three entrances to Parliament. They’re demanding their pension payouts.

    2248 days ago
  • Pensioners queue outside of a supermarket in Mitchells Plain on the 1st of the month to collect their SASSA grants. Picture: Thomas Holder/EWN.

    Pensioners want preference at payout points

    Senior citizens have voiced their unhappiness over long queues at Sassa payout points.

    2488 days ago
  • Pensioner Sally Cervati divides a loaf of bread by putting two slices each into a plastic bag and stacking them in her freezer so that it can last an entire week. Picture: Thomas Holder/EWN

    Social Development urges youth to prepare for retirement

    More than 3 million elderly people around the country are struggling to make ends meet.

    2489 days ago
  • Pensioners queue outside of a supermarket in Mitchells Plain on the 1st of the month to collect their SASSA grants. Picture: Thomas Holder/EWN

    Deadline for social grant tender draws closer

    A deadline for a multi-billion rand tender to administer social welfare grants is drawing closer.

    2489 days ago
  • Lavona Carstens supports her family of 21 with her disability grant, SASSA child grants, and her husbands pension, all which totals R3600. Picture: Thomas Holder/EWN

    Life as a penniless pensioner...

    Lavona Carstens, her husband, and 19 other family members live in their home in Tafelsig, Cape Town. They live almost exclusively off govt grants and stretch their budget to new levels in order to survive.

    2489 days ago
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