The real risks behind South Africa’s social grant payment crisis
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Sassa is currently negotiating with Cash Paymaster Services to enter into a new contract to ensure the continuation of social grants for another year. As we reported this week, a major crisis is looming if government is not able to pay the country's 17 million grant beneficiaries when a contract with Cash Paymaster Services ends this month. But what are the real risks behind South Africa’s social grant payment crisis?
VOC news editor Tasneem Adams chatted to Prof Andries Du Toit, the Director of the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies at UWC to analyse this further
VOC news editor Tasneem Adams chatted to Prof Andries Du Toit, the Director of the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies at UWC to analyse this further