A senior Sassa official in the Eastern Cape, along with several service providers and prominent figures, has been implicated in an alleged fraud and corruption case being investigated by the Hawks, relating to alleged illegal payments amounting to R4.9m which were meant for departmental outreach programmes.
A video showing security officers beating up an “intruder” at the SA Social Security Agency (Sassa) offices in East London on Friday has led to the suspension of one of the guards. The video shows what appears to be two security officers hitting a man with a baton, stepping on him and throwing him to the floor all in view of shocked grant beneficiaries.
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