SASSA beneficiaries who use the Postbank white and gold cards have been advised to use the cashback option. Photo: File
It’s Wednesday 19 May 2021! Today in The South African Daily News Wrap, the South African community is now desperate for the return of the Covid-19 grant. All the news you really need to know.
SASSA beneficiaries who use the Postbank white and gold cards have been advised to use the cashback option. Photo: File
This is The South African’s Daily News Wrap for Wednesday 19 May 2021 – with all the latest news you really need to know.
In our top story,
The abrupt termination of the R350 social relief of distress grant last month has left many people who were relying on the money extremely desperate.
On Tuesday, we asked people at grant payment sites in Nelson Mandela Bay about their ongoing struggle to get the grant.
Thobani Mapangwana said that the South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) had not paid his grant since he applied last year.
He said he has been sent “from pillar-to-post” by SASSA officials in Motherwell each time he went to enquire about his application. But according to SASSA’s records, Maphangwana only applied in February 2021.