The South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) in the Eastern Cape plans to migrate all grant beneficiaries, who currently receive payments at cash pay points, many in rural villages, to electronic banking by March.In a presentation to the Eastern Cape legislature’s portfolio committee on social development this week, Sassa’s Eastern Cape acting regional executive manager, Zanoxolo Mpeta, said the move had come as a result of an increase in cash-in-transit heists as well as capacity challenges at the Post Office.
War cries were shouted, AmaMpondo traditional dances were performed, and dignified and soul-touching songs were chanted by hundreds of fighting stick and knobkerrie-wielding traditional regiments as they laid to rest their traditional leader, Nkosi Mathobela Zuzekile Bokleni, at his Njiveni Great Place near Ngqeleni on Thursday.