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Disability grants: SASSA promises to clear Western Cape backlog by end of March – News from GroundUp

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Disability grants: SASSA promises to clear Western Cape backlog by end of March: Extra doctors have been brought in, SASSA executive tells Western Cape legislature
Source: GroundUp News.

SASSA’s Uitenhage office only serves 50 people a day. This is what it looked like at 1:30pm:
Source: GroundUp News.

Makhanda occupiers say they can no longer afford to pay rent: Municipality is concerned with informal settlements mushrooming in the city
Source: GroundUp News.

UK accused of poaching health workers from poorer countries: It’s “insensitive” and “morally questionable”, write two doctors in the South African Medical Journal
Source: GroundUp News.

Shack dwellers disrupt water and electricity project in Uitenhage: The two projects are meant to benefit elderly, disabled and blind residents whose 500 informal structures are being built in the area
Source: GroundUp News.

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