TUESDAY- HUMAN
RIGHTS
Today we spoke to Elroy
Paulus National Advocacy Manager from Black Sash. Black Sash will be turning 62
this year in May as it was established in 1955. This organisation was started
by a group of very concerned women called women of defense of the constitution
league. Over years it grow and become member based federal organisation, hence
new Black Sash organisations opened, as one on one advice giving. Black Sash
got know through the work of social assistance.
Black Sash has three
programmes in place: The advocacy, citizen based monitoring which is accompanied
with health and education training and information.
Elroy spoke about the social
grants “in February there was a contact that was established between a Cash Pay
Masters and Sassa which enables anyone that gets a grant to go draw there money
anywhere, hence the bank that was used were making deductions for airtime,
funeral plans ect. Hence Sassa said from the 1 April 2017, when the five year
contact ends they will be ready to in source the payment, which means there
would not be any deductions made from Sassa beneficiaries”
30% of the population depends
on grants, hence the question remains will Sassa be ready???
Black Sash will approach the
Constitutional Courts to make sure that the conditions are met by the Constitutional
Courts in order to protect confidential data of Sassa beneficiaries that the
information is not traded, people have the full cash value of the grant and
that there be time frames.
For more information
contact:
Website: www.blacksash.org.za
Email: help@blacksash.org.za
Helpline: 072 663 3739
By: Jasnine Roberts
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