JOHANNESBURG - South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) grant beneficiaries have had to contend with yet another delay accessing their new black cards due to Postbank systems downtime.

South African pensioner, Eric Croy told EWN on Thursday, 20 March that he was unhappy with queuing for his new Sassa Postbank black card for the second consecutive day without assistance.

Postbank is conducting a large-scale replacement of millions of South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) gold cards with new black cards, citing security concerns. Over a million cards have been ...

Beneficiaries have until 20 March to switch from the SASSA-issued gold card to the Postbank-issued black card. The deadline for the validity of the SASSA-issued gold cards was initially set for 31 ...

Social grant beneficiaries who have not replaced their South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) gold cards with the new Postbank black cards have been urged to do so. Sassa gold cards will ...

She added that Postbank will continue replacing Sassa gold cards with new Postbank black cards in all its card replacement sites, even after this date. Recipients can still collect their April ...

Social grant beneficiaries who have not replaced their South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) gold cards with the new Postbank black cards, have been urged to do so. On 20 March 2025, SASSA gold ...

Postbank has started introducing a new Black Card for SASSA beneficiaries. Picture supplied by SASSA JOHANNESBURG - As the deadline looms for beneficiaries to swap their South African Social ...

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More than 170 000 grant recipients have not transitioned to the Postbank black card. Sassa briefed the Western Cape legislature's social development standing committee on the issuing of black cards on ...