SA’s electricity crisis could cut the government’s capacity to administer welfare grants by as much as 20%, a senior official warned on Tuesday.
Load-shedding has added to the pressure on the SA Social Security Agency (Sassa), which in 2020 was given the responsibility of administering the R350 Covid-19 social relief of distress (SRD) grant without a commensurate budget increase. It was already providing welfare grants to 18-million beneficiaries, ranging from pensioners to parents from impoverished households...
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