Parliament's Portfolio Committee on Science, Innovation and Technology calls for urgent digital reforms to South Africa's SASSA grant payment system, aiming to enhance efficiency and protect beneficiaries during the transition to new payment cards.

South Africa’s SASSA biometric verification drive has processed nearly one million beneficiaries since 2025, while close to 68,000 grants were suspended amid intensified fraud…

Calls for urgent reform as social grant recipients face obstacles and agency capacity wanes