Western Cape should focus on reducing unemployment and dependency on SASSA
14 November 2024
It is trite to debate the effects of SASSA’s weaknesses and failures on vulnerable people.
When people without financial safety nets struggle to access the money they depend on in order to eat, some of us may choose to look away but we all know that the physical and emotional impacts can only be horrendous.
SASSA is the responsibility of national government. Its performance negatively impacts vulnerable citizens across the country, including in the Western Cape.
It makes more sense for us to debate what we should be doing – which we have the powers to do – to reduce unemployment and dependency on SASSA.