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The Democratic Alliance has slammed the South African Social Security Agency(SASSA) of being virtually inaccessible to millions of its beneficiaries telephonically. The party said it attempted to contact 212 random SASSA offices nationwide 48 had a working landline number, however only about about nine answered their phone(4,7% of the 212 offices). Shadow minister of Social Development Bridget Masango says that it is alarming that grant recipients aren’t to gain information telephonically. Masango said that the 164 SASSA offices either had outdated numbers or no landline numbers available at all. For many people a quick Google search is able to reveal the needed information. Masango, some of the number they were from the registry on SASSA’s website, the Yellow Pages, as well as Google.

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