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STATEMENT BY PRESIDENT CYRIL RAMAPHOSA ON FURTHER ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL MEASURES IN RESPONSE THE...
STATEMENT BY PRESIDENT CYRIL RAMAPHOSA ON FURTHER ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL MEASURES IN RESPONSE THE COVID-19 EPIDEMIC
UNION BUILDINGS, TSHWANE
21 APRIL 2020
My Fellow South Africans,
It is...
Black Sash making its mark for 60 years
For more than half-a-century, the Black Sash has been helping people in tangible concrete ways realise their human rights. Formed in response to the discrimination practised by the apartheid government, today it still works to assist the downtrodden.
Count yourself in to end violence against women and children
The theme for this years 16 Days of Activism for No Violence Against Women and Children is "Count me in: Together moving a non-violent South Africa forward, a call to citizens to act as a collective to end gender-based violence and child abuse in the country.
Count yourself in to end violence against women and children
The theme for this years 16 Days of Activism for No Violence Against Women and Children is "Count me in: Together moving a non-violent South Africa forward, a call to citizens to act as a collective to end gender-based violence and child abuse in the country.
Budget 2014: Increases in old age, child support grants
Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan announced inflation-related increases in old age, disability, child support and foster care grants on Wednesday. South Africa's social assistance system, one of the largest in Africa, is the government's most direct means of combating poverty.
Biometric grant cards beating fraud
The South African Social Security Agency has cancelled over 150 000 grants since introducing a biometric grant payment system in March 2012, amounting to an annual saving of R150-million. Almost 22-million social grant beneficiaries have re-registered on the new system.
Govt speeds up service delivery
The South African government has achieved several successes in speeding up police
response times, social grants applications, temporary residence permits and the filling
of public service vacancies, says Performance Monitoring and Evaluation director-general Sean Phillips.
Biometric cards to beat social grant fraud
South Africa has begun rolling out a new biometric card to social grant beneficiaries that will cut down on fraud and corruption in the country's grants system, improve on the delivery of grants, and reduce the costs involved in making payouts.
SA starts social grant clean-up, upgrade
The South African Social Security Agency is embarking on a major project to re-register and verify the identities of the country's social grant beneficiaries in order to rid the system of corruption and ensure that grants are paid to the right people only.
Parents urged to apply for grants
The government has urged indigent parents with children under the age of 15 to apply for child support grants. People who qualify include families and couples with an income of less than R4 600 and single parents earning less than R2 300 a month.