Sassa card

Shop Support DM Logo

Investigations

Scorpio Our burning planet amabhungane Declassified UK

News & Analysis

Business Maverick Maverick Citizen Sport Newsdeck Maverick News Nelson Mandela Bay Johannesburg

Features

Opinionistas Maverick Life TGIFood Blog Podcasts Webinars Zapiro Cartoons Op-eds

Newspaper

E-edition Subscribe Delivery Queries

DM is much better if you are signed in...

Enter your email below and we will send you a mail with a link or one-time pin to login

Sign in with password
Sign in with OAuth

Get Support DM Shop Support DM

Sassa card

Social grant payment ‘glitch’ sees desperate elderly recipients forced to take loans to survive

South Africa, Maverick Citizen, Maverick News

Social grant payment ‘glitch’ sees desperate elderly recipients forced to take loans to survive

by: Daniel Steyn, Ella Morrison, Loyiso Dyongman, Tsoanelo Sefoloko and Thamsanqa Mbovane

Debug: hasMoreArticles=false, articles.length=1