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Sassa Gold Card: 280,000 people still need to switch

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By Marecia Damons Verified
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2 days7 days30 daysBy Industry Show more Advertise your job vacancies Subscribe to daily business and company news across 19 industries About 280,000 social grant beneficiaries still need to replace their Sassa Gold Cards with Postbank Black Cards before the 31 August. Postbank has warned that those who delay risk disruptions to their grant payments. Social grant beneficiaries have until 31 August to switch from the Sassa Gold Card to the Postbank Black Card.
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Four years ago their son was brought home dead in a police van. They want answers.

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By Marecia Damons Verified
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Sally and George van Rooyen say they found bruises on the body of their son, Georgio, after police brought him home, dead. They have never been given an explanation. Photo: Marecia Damons. Nearly four years after Georgio van Rooyen died, his family say they still don’t know how or why he died. His parents say they found bruises on his body after police brought him home, but they have never been given an explanation about what may have happened.
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Minister promises shorter Sassa queues and R1.5 billion in savings

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By Marecia Damons Verified
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The Sassa head office in Pretoria. Deaan Vivier/Netwerk24 The new Minister of Social Development, Dina Pule, has promised to make Sassa queues shorter, as well as to save the government R1.5 billion by stopping payments to ineligible beneficiaries. The money saved “can be redirected to fund other government projects and priorities,” Pule said at a briefing in Pretoria on Tuesday. This financial year, SASSA aims to review 350 000 beneficiaries, up from 240,000 last year.
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