Twenty years ago, South Africa made a quiet but profound promise to its most vulnerable citizens.
In April 2006, the South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) became fully operational not merely as a government institution but also as a lifeline.
A safety net woven from the constitutional conviction that every South African has the right to social security. Two decades on, it is worth pausing to reflect on just how extraordinary that promise has become.
When Sassa was established, the social grant system was a patchwork of fragmented provincial administrations, uneven in reach and marked by inefficiencies.
By 1996, about 2-million beneficiaries received social assistance. That…
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