The Black Sash said it was shocked that SASSA had once again failed in its constitutional obligation to pay social grant beneficiaries on time.
The human rights organization’s Thandi Henkerman said that more than 150,000 child grant and old age grant beneficiaries had not been paid in January.
Last year, payment failures left thousands of beneficiaries in financial distress for two months.
Henkerman said that SASSA had blamed the latest payment failure on faults with a verification process that authenticated personal information.
“A lot of hungry, desperate people in this month of January, it’s been a really difficult month for a lot of people and this has just been compounded by this last-minute administrative request.”
Henkerman said that SASSA had assured beneficiaries they’d get a double payment in February.
-EWN
In other news – Mzansi reacts to DJ Maphorisa’s old photos looking like Skomota
Popular Mzansi star, DJ Maphorisa recently took to X (the social media platform previously known as Twitter) and posted an old photo of himself which had his social media buzzing.
DJ Maphorisa had his social media friends shook after unexpectedly posting a throwback photo of himself. In the old picture, the Abelele hitmaker appeared to have been in his teens. The 36-year-old popular Amapiano disc jockey could also be seen wearing a red short-sleeved t-shit with white strips, a green and yellow cap, and long dark jeans. Read More
