A mother and child walk between shacks in the impoverished shack settlement of Masiphumelele, Cape Town, South Africa, 23 August 2017. EPA/NIC BOTHMA
The South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) on Wednesday told MPs that all "glitches" in getting social grants paid should be resolved within the following two days. Getting access to that monthly social grant has been a struggle this month for about 700,000 beneficiaries, who migrated to the new cards. And although Sassa was confident there would not be a repeat of July's payment debacle as more beneficiaries are receiving the new cards, not everyone was quite convinced.
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