'I always get robbed': The elderly SASSA beneficiary nightmare

'I always get robbed': The elderly SASSA beneficiary nightmare

A soft-spoken elderly woman, a SASSA old-age grant recipient for 14 years, does not talk about her grant with bitterness or entitlement. She talks about it with gratitude. But beneath that gratitude runs a current of fear, one that grows every time she approaches an ATM, or a retail payment point and realises she cannot do it alone. And every time she asks for help, she gets robbed. SASSA recipient targeted by the very people she turns to “When …