Minister of Social Development in South Africa Lindiwe Zulu revealed that Sassa spends millions of rand on foreign nationals. Sassa had paid R350 SRD grants to 4 102 refugees. This is how Twitter reacted:

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@Thetruthpanther

Lindiwe Zulu revealed that Sassa spends millions of rand on foreign nationals. Sassa had paid R350 SRD grants to 4 102 refugees and 15 258 asylum-seekers since the introduction of the grant. Sassa has paid out a total of R34 million to refugees and R63 million to asylum-seekers.

@divservshopping

South Africans. This is what your ANC government has brought to our country. Then they still give them grants for turning our country into a slum. Your vote is not something which will benefit you, but a vote for foreigners.

@sigubude

How did they manage to pay so much to undocumented foreigners while South Africans old and young are dying from starvation? The ANC government is useless and is anti-south Africans.

@Kingjoelaw1

This payment of Sassa to Foreign nationals happen while: (1) The flood victims in KZN are still without shelter. (2) Infants, South Africans in rural Eastern Cape, die of Hunger. (3) The priorities of the ANC Government are not and were never with South Africans.

@Cathygodfree

This is not much about paying incorrect people but more about shifting blame to officials for her own failures. You mean since she took over from the previous minister she only realised it now that foreigners are getting paid? It’s towards elections, so I am not surprised.

@Siwambara

This is embarrassing. Every day, South Africans complain that they are being rejected, some of whom have never worked a single day in their lives. We keep assisting strangers to appeal the declined SRD but you never help – @ Cyrilramaphosa what have we done?

@Fitness_bopelo

These ANC crooks are fooling the citizens, no refugee or asylum-seeker received that money, it left Sassa and went straight to their crooked friends, then they come and lie to us. Let the recipients come forward and say I received it. No one would come forward because nobody got the money.

@Rulzkay1_

Sassa was “defrauded” of R590 million-odd over six years. That’s about R5,4 million a month. How is it possible that Lindiwe Zulu or senior staff did not pick this up? This money must have been paid into accounts somewhere, no bank raised a red flag? Transparency? No. Collusion? Surely

@rexntsane

What is so sickening about this is that South Africans must sacrifice for all this. No increase at work, when we retire we do not qualify for government grant. Our children must pay heavy tax to access their inheritance. Those who continue voting ANC are to blame.