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Inside Sassa’s grant review: Queues, outages, suspensions

Inside Sassa’s grant review: Queues, outages, suspensions23 sept4 min

Daily Maverick’s Tamsin Metelerkamp visited Sassa offices across five provinces to look at the agency’s intensified grant review process, launched to detect fraud. The investigation found overburdened, understaffed offices, frequent system outages, and lawful beneficiaries facing suspended payments and repeated office visits to resolve them.