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Picket targets minister as Parliament votes on social development budget

Protesters shout “Dlamini Must Fall”

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News | 25 May 2017

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SASSA has two weeks to show plan to phase out service provider CPS

“CEO says everything is going to plan, but where is this plan?”

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News | 16 May 2017

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SASSA warns workers not to strike

NEHAWU has vowed to down tools on Wednesday

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Brief | 20 March 2017

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Constitutional Court orders CPS to carry on paying grants, rejects fee increase

Judges slam Minister of Social Development and SASSA

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News | 17 March 2017

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Social grants will be paid on 1 April, Gordhan promises

Scopa Chairman Themba Godi says there is a “crisis of no confidence” in Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini

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News | 14 March 2017

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Cash Paymaster Services defends its right to profit from social grants contract

Any new deal with SASSA will be a lawful contract, says CPS in court papers

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News | 14 March 2017

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Constitutional Court calls SASSA to account

Agency told to provide details of new social grant payment contract

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News | 8 March 2017

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New social grants contract to be finalised by Friday

Dlamini says SASSA underestimated the task of taking over grant payments

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News | 7 March 2017

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Court bid to stop CPS making profits from new SASSA contract

Freedom Under Law asks Constitutional Court to block fee increase

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News | 7 March 2017

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SASSA beneficiaries coerced into “green” cards to get loans

Grant recipients told by SMS to move to EasyPay Everywhere card

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News | 28 February 2017

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US analyst urges clients to sell Net1 shares as concerns mount over social grant payments

CEO hits back at “unbridled slander” from critics

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News | 13 February 2017

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Old age pensioners should get funeral insurance, says Black Sash

Amendments to Social Assistance Act proposed

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News | 6 December 2016

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Social grant recipients sent home empty-handed

Systems are down, Pietermaritzburg beneficiaries told

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News | 8 November 2016

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Sassa fails to stop bribery in queues for social grants

We are a business for security guards, says pensioner

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News | 14 July 2016

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Deductions from social grants: Reserve Bank enters the fray

Debit orders worth R550 million at stake

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News | 6 July 2016

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Minister wins battle with Lion

Insurance company backs down in battle over deductions from social grants

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News | 26 May 2016