Sassa provincial spokesman Senzeni Ngubeni said 1.4 million people in the province were receiving grants.

"As of Wednesday at least 12000 people had been taken out of our system. These include ghost beneficiaries, deceased persons or people who did not heed our call to re-register," Ngubeni said.

He said the agency was working with the Department of Home Affairs to verify the details of social grant recipients.

The campaign will be launched at KaMhlushwa Stadium near Tonga, where Sassa will be taking new applications and re-registering existing beneficiaries.

The departments of Home Affairs, Health, Social Development, Police and municipal officials will also be providing services.

He urged people to go to their pay point stations to re-register. The process ends in March 2013. - mashabas@sowetan.co.za

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Oct 12, 2012

warry

Help me please I am cheating on my man.
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Oct 12, 2012

MOKOPANEDUDE

Sassa if really want to root out corruption they must start with management on how they award tenders and stop outsourcing everything cos is causing tax payers too much
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Oct 12, 2012

SOLUTIONS

Easy, stop the grants and start a work for food program, you will quickly notice how the lazy stop getting grants that does not belong to them.

Mpumalanga is a dirty place, the roads to our Kruger National Park looks like dump sites, get them to clean it.
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Oct 12, 2012

warry

Hahaha most people benefiting in mpumalanga are from swaziland and mozambique. It's a syndicate dude, an official from home affairs, sassa police etc and the beneficiary may forfeit his or her grant for a year before getting it. He pays all those guys first and second renewal fee every year.
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