Anele Twele woke up at 1am on Thursday to beat the queue at the Sassa office in the Cape Town CBD. But by 10am she was still a couple of paces from the entrance.
She carefully arranged her papers as a security officer took her temperature and sanitised her hands before entering the office.
But 64-year-old Christina Suzuki, from Brooklyn, was not as optimistic. She joined the queue at 5.30am and it already curved around the block. “I stood in the line and I was told to go home. They said they open at 7.30am but today they opened at 8am. There are only three people serving us, but the whole of the Cape is here. I need to reapply for foster grant for two children. I haven’t been paid for those children in the last six months. It is the same thing as yesterday. They must bring in more staff, there are people from Maitland, Khayelitsha and Philippi here. All the other places are coming here.
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