• The news organisation that focuses on news affecting poor people, Groundup, has published a series of articles about social grants (some of them taken up by other newspapers): How the system works; How grants are used to pay back loans; Net1 – the company that runs the social grant payment system.
  • Groundup has also published a useful list of frequently asked questions (FAQs) about social grants, with their answers: Click hereBlack Sash human rights organisation has published a pamphlet about grants and rights: Click here
  • Black Sash has this article about these problems and illegal deductions on its website, that first appeared in The Sunday Times Business Times section: Click here
  • The fact-checking organisation Africacheck has published accurate information about social grants to correct many wrong things people believe, such as that teenagers have babies just to get social grants. Click here
  • This contributor to the international online magazine, Brookings, is very positive about the effect of our social grant system: Click here. The article ends: “In fact, social assistance may well be just what many in South Africa need, enabling them to actively pursue a job search, move out of a poverty trap, and take control of and direct their futures, instead of being slaves to the circumstances in which they were born.”