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Three women working for a loan shark expect grant recipients to Thembalihle township in the Free State to repay the loans they took Oupa Nkosi, M G.
The payment point is at the community hall, which is encircled by a barbed wire fence Two security guards are on duty at the door and check the beneficiaries of grants slips indicating their pay date.
Martin Funeral services set up a tent outside the fence to market its business from retirees.
Young women who receive support grants for children and pensioners to join the outgoing queue of the room A child support grant to children is R310 and the old age grant is R1 350 Sixteen million South Africans provides welfare benefits each month, and the Agency for the south African social security has a budget Sassa R120 billion to pay the beneficiaries this year.
Next to the hall, a number of women with blankets wrapped around their waist sitting on plastic chairs, they and the men waiting in the car outside the gates, are there to collect loan repayments from beneficiaries grants.
Payment cards Sassa, used by retirees to withdraw money from the pay station, are kept by loan sharks as long as their owners still have their money They also keep their identity documents and slips that show their payment date.
Retirees who need them the money first gather their papers and pay the cards before making their way into the station to pay once they have received their money, they pay their debts outside.
usurer I discuss two young women sitting on chairs that say they are working for a Chinese moneylender mashonisa that they know that Kevin's name is hard to pronounce, they say.
A tall man in black pants and a sweater we approach his name is Simon Mahlangu, and it is 42 years later, his mother says has a history of mental illness.
He was granted a loan of R700 in January by Kevin He says he knows the two women because they work for the Chinese man.
He asks R2 to buy a loose cigarette Why are you here today is not your salary; tomorrow is your turn, one of the women shouted to him, handing him a few coins.
They say Mahlangu usually hangs around pay point, even if it is not his salary.
His mother, Mary Mavuso 65, told their RDP house she wasn t aware that his son had taken a loan until she wanted to see his payment card for social grant and ID.
He said he gave them to a Chinese, I knew it had to be a mashonisa because I'm here with him before.
No food Mavuso said she borrowed money R300 a different mashonisa because there was no food at home they made a verbal agreement with the lender, which was paid R500 for grant his son.
Mahlangu receives a monthly disability grant R1 350, but only takes R350 at home because the rest is consumed by the mashonisa said his mother, he borrowed R700 every month and must then pay R1 000.
She said her son therefore can never get out of debt, and is shocked that he was lent the money in the first place because of his mental state the payment card he used to withdraw money always with the lender and can not be recovered once it has fully settled its debt.
Mavuso said she spends R150 on water and electricity R100 prepaid each month.
It is very difficult as a woman at the head of a household with no husband, she said.
Family of nine, she receives a grant of old age and nine family survive on this and his son Grant She also says she is now debt still another mashonisa to whom she pays R900 monthly.
I took a loan R700 last year because I wanted to take my daughter, who is ill, a Sangoma.
It now borrows R700 every month from the same lender to complete the amount she stays with.
Back at the community hall, the two women say their work is to go to salary and look for potential customers among retirees they collect debts on behalf of their employer Chinese They both large handbags with them their clients, a man his early 40s, has just paid R650 to R450 his loan.
Women say he suffers from epilepsy and receives a monthly disability allowance of R1 350 is your money here, he said, gives the money to a woman, it also calls on payment card and then waits woman opens her bag, which is stuffed Sassa cards and money, and hands him back another time, he again R450 is now in debt, and be responsible for R650 come next payday.
retiree clients The woman said the Chinese lender has about 700 clients on its books the majority of its customers are retirees.
Then a woman with sheets of paper our friend working for Sassa made its way to us inside the room documents contain lists of pensioners will be paid the day following the name Mahlangu is among them.
On the road to Thembalihle is Vrede Chinese mashonisa sits at his small shop in Vrede on a plastic chair The two women are standing He gestures he does not understand English and then stressed women, suggesting I talk with them.
Kevin, he talks about 427, one of the women, said she uses the number 427 to indicate Mahlangu Kevin nods and she does not take the woman said they call clients by their number, because Kevin can pronounce their t Zulu name.
Credit providers unscrupulous When approached for comment, COO of the national regulator of credit NCR Tongoane Obed said he was aware of the main unscrupulous credit providers operating in the payment of pensions points.
According to him, the NCR police and Sassa raided to pay points in Port Elizabeth, Nqutu district in KwaZulu-Natal and the Northern Cape, Thohoyandou and Mpumalanga, which give positive results concerning the case of Mahlangu said Tongoane is illegal to give credit to a minor or a mentally incapacitated person, and that will Sassa investigation.
This was echoed by the spokesman Sassa Kgomoco Diseko, who said, it seems that the lender Mahlangu committed a criminal offense and that Sassa will investigate.
In November, the organization of human rights Black Sash has launched a campaign called Hands off our grants.
Black Sash advocacy director Elroy Paulus said loan sharks are prohibited by law from doing business, 100 meters of pay points.
Rapula Moatshe is the companion of Eugene Saldanha for reports of social justice, sponsored by the Charities Aid Foundation of South Africa.
Rapula Moatshe's compatriot Eugene Saldanha Mail for independent journalism degree in 2000 and continued to study BA Communication Sciences by Unisa He worked as a news editor for Rosebank Killarney Gazette, a community newspaper under the aegis Caxton 2012 Rapula underwent a training program of three months Mail and Guardian Center for investigative journalism, amaBhungane where he sharpens his investigative skills with amaBhungane While he outlined how the former mayor of Rustenburg municipality continued to draw his salary while behind bars, serving murder journalistic career began in 2005 when he worked for BuaNews now called New South Africa Agency as an independent journalist in the North West, covering the development worked for regional newspapers like the News and Lowvelder Mpumalanga, where he exposed a gang of criminals who cross the Mozambique border to commit robberies and murders in South Africa, near the Lebombo border gate, and flee to their country of origin Read more Rapula Moatshe.
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