South Africa’s Social Security Agency’s (SASSA) cash payout services are set to end, and this will have a major impact on the lives of hundreds of thousands of vulnerable rural South Africans. The dwindling count of cash payment points and an increase in transportation costs will disproportionately affect economically disadvantaged communities. Civil rights groups are urging SASSA and Postbank to consider the needs of these communities, and the impending shift highlights the global struggle of narrowing the gap between the affluent and the needy.
