Articles for Barbara October

MPs instruct SASSA to drop CPS

We really need the enquiry into CPS, says ANC MP

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News | 15 February 2018

SASSA files explosive papers in court

Agency turns on CPS, accuses company of abusing its position

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News | 14 February 2018

Post office to phase in payment of social grants from 1 April

CPS cannot just “up and go”, says post office executive

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News | 13 February 2018

Bonteheuwel school grounds used as illegal dumping site

Rubbish piles up after fencing around the school’s property was vandalised

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News | 8 February 2018

Public Protector investigating “irregular” recruitments at Prasa

UniteBehind calls for urgent release of the findings

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News | 6 February 2018

SASSA negotiating low bank fees for grant beneficiaries

Deductions from new accounts might not be allowed

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News | 1 February 2018

Readers step in to help boy who was shot by stray bullet

School fees raised for Manenberg teen

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Brief | 31 January 2018

A Manenberg mother’s desperate struggle to save her son

Shereen Adams fought for her son’s life when he was shot during gang violence. Now she’s fighting to keep him at school.

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Feature | 29 January 2018

Apartheid-era gatherings act declared unconstitutional

Victory for Social Justice Coalition after protest

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News | 24 January 2018

SASSA to start paying grants through Postbank in February

Cash payments still to be done by CPS — for now

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News | 16 January 2018

PRASA appoints a CEO who is under investigation for corruption

UniteBehind demands removal of Mthuthuzeli Swartz, acting CEO of Rail

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News | 11 January 2018

Fewer poor infants receive grants in Western Cape and Gauteng

12 million of 17.2 million social grants are for child support

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News | 15 December 2017

Where to get your grant after 1 April

SASSA is negotiating with banks for beneficiaries to get low-cost accounts

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News | 12 December 2017

How fishing in a Western Cape town is dying

“Our people have lived off the river for years … but fish don’t come here anymore”

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Feature | 8 December 2017

Rape survivors deserve privacy in court, says Rape Crisis

Call for Khayelitsha to have a special sexual offences court

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News | 5 December 2017