School feeding schemes stopped providing meals after the last exam was written, leaving children to find food for themselves in December and much of January.
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.
Daily Dispatch Local Hero 2023 nominee and deputy traditional leader in KwaBomvane, Nkosikazi Nosintu Gwebindlala has been nominated as a fellow of the international Global Leadership Academy. She will spend a week in Istanbul in Turkey putting the needs of rural people on a global platform at an international workshop.
Public health facilities were rocked by a violent strike over the past two weeks, and patients were in crisis. There were not enough hands to look after the country’s most vulnerable, but then South Africans stepped up.