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Inside Sassa’s grant review: Queues, outages, suspensions

Episode Summary

Daily Maverick’s Tamsin Metelerkamp visited Sassa offices across five provinces to look at the agency’s intensified grant review process, launched to detect fraud. The investigation found overburdened, understaffed offices, frequent system outages, and lawful beneficiaries facing suspended payments and repeated office visits to resolve them.

Episode Notes

Daily Maverick’s Tamsin Metelerkamp visited Sassa offices across five provinces to look at the agency’s intensified grant review process, launched to detect fraud. The investigation found overburdened, understaffed offices, frequent system outages, and lawful beneficiaries facing suspended payments and repeated office visits to resolve them. 

Reporting by: Tamsin Metelerkamp
Filmed by: Joel Seboa
Edited by: Anda Tolibadi
Produced by: Emilie Gambade 
Creative input by: Malibongwe Tyilo
Sub-edited by: Ian Wolstenholme

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