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Social grant recipients queue outside the Boxer store in the Mitchell’s Plain Town Centre to swop their Sassa card for the new Postbank card ahead of the deadline on Thursday March 20.
SOUTH AFRICAN SOCIAL SECURITY AGENCY SASSA

‘What the government is doing to us is not right’

The deadline to switch from the South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) gold cards to new Postbank black cards has been extended but not before the process fed thousands of…

  • Hazel Allies-Husselman
  • Alicia English
7 min read
South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) beneficiaries have until the end of the month to replace their current gold cards with black cards. Picture: David Ritchie
SASSA

Sassa gold card holders urged to get new black card by month end

The South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) and Postbank have urged social grant beneficiaries to replace their Sassa gold cards with the new Postbank black cards by the end…

  • Staff Reporter
2 min read