Hands off Our Grants : Defending the Constitutional Right to Social Protection.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sash, Black.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

South African Social Security Agency.

Public welfare--South Africa--History--21st century.

Public welfare.

Social security--South Africa.

Social security.

Welfare fraud--South Africa--History--21st century.

Welfare fraud.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (287 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cape Town : BestRed, 2022.

Summary:

In 2012, South Africa's social welfare system came under attack. Enormous sums of money were siphoned from South African Social Security Agency accounts--allegedly with the complicity of government officials--affecting the livelihoods of millions. But then, in what became a hugely successful grass-roots movement, the beneficiaries of the social grants mobilized behind Black Sash's Hands Off Our Grants (Hoog) campaign to reclaim their constitutional right to social security. Hands Off Our Grants traces the unfolding of the Hoog campaign, showing how South Africa's most vulnerable--poor, inadequately informed, some even illiterate--were able to defend themselves against exploitation and malpractice. Among the points emphasized in the book are the ongoing need to monitor the use and distribution of state resources, the importance of accountability on the part of political leadership, and the often overlooked power of social advocacy.

Contents:

Frontmatter

About the Black Sash

Contents

Acknowledgements

Acronyms and abbreviations

Foreword

Authors’ note

Background to the Hoog campaign

1 The experiences of grant beneficiaries

2 The Ministerial Task Team

3 The Hoog campaign’s strategic litigation

4 The Net1 business model

5 Tackling state capture at Sassa

6 Parliamentary oversight of Sassa

7 Black Sash’s advocacy through partnership

Moving ahead

Appendix 1: The work of the Panel of Experts

Appendix 2: Net1’s group structure at March 2014

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

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Other Format:

Print version: Sash, Black Hands off Our Grants

ISBN:

9781928246565

OCLC:

1380732599