Anele Twele woke up at 1am on Thursday to beat the queue at the Sassa (SA Social Security Agency) office in the Cape Town CBD.
Throngs of people came out to apply for child support grants at the Sassa office in Cape Town on Thursday.Anele Twele woke up at 1am on Thursday to beat the queue at the Sassa office in the Cape Town CBD.
She went home to Dunoon and slept for a few hours before getting into a taxi after midnight and heading back to town. But she found several other people already waiting for the office to open at 7.30am. She carefully arranged her papers as a security officer took her temperature and sanitised her hands before entering the office.
Pensioner Christina Suzuki joined the queue at 5.30am. She was worried that she might not make it past the door for a second day.“I was here yesterday and I had to go back home because they closed the door at 3.30,” said Suzuki.
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