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The dispute over South Africa’s social grant system and threatening millions of vulnerable beneficiaries with non-payment creates risks that go far beyond interrupting poor people’s access to desperately needed grants. The failure of the South African

The CEO of Net1 UEPS Technologies said a failure to extend its contract to distribute South African welfare payments beyond the end of March would be a “national disaster”, and offered to sell the business to the government. While the South African Social

Social development minister Bathabile Dlamini could not provide answers on Wednesday about her department’s readiness to take over the social grants scheme. Dlamini and members of the South African Social Security Agency

The South African Social Security Agency received a roasting by parliament’s standing committee on public accounts (Scopa) on Wednesday over R1,1bn in irregular expenditure in 2015/2016. Hawks head Berning Ntlemeza was in attendance

The South African Social Security Agency’s irregular expenditure over the last financial year skyrocketed by over a thousand percent, from R93m in 2014/2015 to over R1bn in 2015/2016. The bulk of the R1,1bn

Electronic payments company Net1 UEPS Technologies faces the prospect of hanging onto South Africa’s R10bn social grants tender until 2017. This is after the state-owned South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) dismissed three new bids for the contract. In April 2014, the

The South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) and its agent, Cash Paymaster Services (CPS), are railroading state welfare recipients into using Vodacom Sim cards through an exclusive partnership between the two companies. The partnership has the potential to drive millions of beneficiaries into Vodacom’s arms on the back