Sassa
SRD R350 grant: Thousands of payments delayed after PostBank's technical glitch
Africa Melane spoke to Lucas Ndala, the interim CEO at Postbank about the technical issues with the R350 grant payments.
Personal finance expert Maya Fisher-French with her perspective on why inflation is hurting us more in SA - on The Money Show.
The minister expressed this in a government gazette published on Monday.
Pensioners are first in line, with all other grants to be paid from Wednesday.
Khayelitsha residents want the national government to intervene in the way Sassa has been run in their community.
Higher Education and Training Minister Blade Nzimande said his department and Sassa would be investigating as to how qualifying students currently receiving funding from the scheme were approved.
Breakfast show host Refilwe Moloto interviews Sassa executive Brendon van Vrede on the recent findings by Stats SA that 25% of the country's citizens depend on state grants.
Social Development Minister Lindiwe Zulu said that since the grants were no longer being paid out under the COVID-19 regulations, new regulations had to be put in place and negotiations with the banks.
Zulu tabled her 2022/2023 budget in Parliament on Friday.
Sassa and Post Office staff will be stationed at its cash pay points to help beneficiaries secure pins so they could transact at retail outlets and ATMs.
The agency said that grant recipients would receive a PIN code for them to access their money at certain retail outlets, like supermarkets and ATMs.
More than 400 people have been confirmed to have died after adverse weather hit parts of KwaZulu-Natal and the Eastern Cape.
Former social development minister Bathabile Dlamini was found guilty of perjury and is out on a warning until her return to the Johannesburg Magistrate's Court for sentencing next month.
Magistrate Betty Khumalo said she was satisfied that Dlamini, in her written statement and oral testimony, gave false evidence under oath at an inquiry into Sassa, which was instituted by the Constitutional Court.
Magistrate Betty Khumalo delivered her judgment, saying the State had successfully proven beyond reasonable doubt that the former minister had lied under oath during the proceedings at the inquiry into the Sassa grants debacle.
Former Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini is accused of lying under oath during the inquiry instituted by the Constitutional Court into the 2017 social grants debacle at the South African Social Security Agency (Sassa).
National treasury documents detail how an estimated 96.6% or R684 billion over the medium term will go towards the payment of social grants specifically, which are administered by the South African Social Security Agency.
Dlamini is accused of lying under oath during the 2017 inquiry into the social grants' debacle at the South African Social Security Agency that saw millions of grant beneficiaries unsure if they would receive their monies.
Former Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini is accused of lying under oath during an inquiry into the South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) crisis in 2017.