LIVES ARE HANGING BY A THREAD. While you read this, millions of South Africans are staring at empty cupboards and facing impossible choices, forced to wait on the government’s cruel and staggered calendar of survival.
SASSA has just revealed its payment schedule for March 2026, and it’s a blueprint for despair. The elderly, our most vulnerable, must hold on until Tuesday, 3 March. The disabled wait another agonizing day until Wednesday, 4 March. Children’s grants—the money meant for feeding our future—don’t even arrive until Thursday, 5 March. This isn’t logistics. This is TORTURE BY SCHEDULE.
And for the desperate masses relying on the SRD grant? Pure chaos. No firm date. Just a vague, heart-stopping window from 24 March to the 30 March, with a warning: “business days only.” If the system fails you, good luck. You’re told to just “check your status online” in a country where data is a luxury food can’t afford.
WHO BENEFITS from this engineered panic and suffering? The loan sharks circling on payout days. The politicians who stay silent. This is a pressure cooker, and the dates prove it’s designed to keep the poor terrified, divided, and begging for scraps from a broken machine.
They’re even running a survey to win R2,000 while millions wonder how to win a single meal.
Ask yourself one question: do they care if you make it to April?
Edited for Kayitsi.com
Author: Kayitsi.com
