Dear Minister of Finance Tito Mboweni, RE: Budget places the poor on the altar of ‘fiscal consolidation’ Minister Tito Mboweni, the 2021 Budget Speech, on Wednesday 24 February 2021, failed

The Black Sash Trust, the Centre for Applied Legal Studies and Freedom Under Law are deeply concerned about Bathabile Dlamini’s refusal to pay legal costs awarded against her for her

President Cyril Ramaphosa’s State of the Nation Address announced a three month extension of the R350 COVID-19 Social Relief of Distress (SRD) grant, but falls short on long term planning

The Covid-19 pandemic continues to be an immediate threat and until we have large scale vaccinations, everyone remains at risk. We are far from rolling out the vaccines widely and

As the death toll of the second wave of COVID-19 continues to devastate the country and lockdown Level 3 is extended by at least six weeks, the government still appears

Civil Society Organisations, working on access to social security, welcome President Ramaphosa’s signing into law the Social Assistance Amendment Act. These include the Children’s Institute at UCT, Centre for Child

On Friday 15 January 2021, as social grant beneficiaries stood in long congested queues outside the Bellville SASSA office, the police who were on site to assist SASSA to manage

On 6 August 2020, the Minister of Social Development issued amendments which allowed for temporary disability grants, lapsing from July onwards, to be extended to 31 December 2020. The Regulations

The Black Sash welcomes the new Auditor-General’s (AG), Tsakani Maluleke, special audit report of 9 December 2020 concerning government’s Covid-19 relief package. It is particularly pleasing that this esteemed office

30 October 2020 The Black Sash Trust, represented by the Centre for Applied Legal Studies, this week made an urgent application to the Pretoria High Court. We sought to ensure