Organisation Concerned About the Rise in Loan Sharks Withholding SASSA, ID Cards [Video]

• Human rights organisation Black Sash is worried that more loan sharks are illegally holding their clients’ SASSA and ID cards
• Spaza shops also reportedly kept their customers’ grant cards in exchange for credit to buy food
• South Africans shared instances where they witnessed loan sharks making multiple withdrawals using SASSA cards

With nine years of experience, Tebogo Mokwena, a Briefly News current affairs journalist, provided insights into infrastructure challenges and state-owned enterprises in South Africa at Daily Sun and Vutivi Business News.

JOHANNESBURG — Black Sash National Helpline, a human rights organisation, has noted that more South Africans use their South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) and ID cards as collateral to get loans and buy groceries on credit from local spaza …