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Frustrated South Africans call for lower food prices amid rising costs

  Some frustrated South Africans from low-income communities have called for lower food prices, calling government social grants insufficient to meet their monthly nutritional needs. Dozens of residents from across Gauteng gathered outside the Shoprite Distribution Park in Centurion, Pretoria, in a protest led by the Union Against Hunger. Demonstrators carried a petition signed by over 20,000 South Africans, highlighting the daily struggles many face amid rising food prices and […]

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Sassa to pay grants earlier

The South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) has announced that people living with disabilities and the elderly will receive their grants on the 30th and 31st of March. The payment of grants has been brought forward in an effort to ease congestion at pay points in the wake of the Covid-19 outbreak. In a statement, SASSA said all other grants such as child support should be paid from the 1st […]

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