SASSA - But a Tip of the Rock.
We started visiting a sick family member in Eerste River mid August. During one such visit a family member mentioned how he needed to get up at 3am the next morning to take someone to join the que at the local SASSA office sort out her child grant. My immediate question was why. The answer came back if you want to get helped this is what needs to be done. Otherwise you will never get what you need. I than found out there is a nightly camp that pops up of people coming there as "early" as 6pm on the night before to be first in line the next morning. The kicker is there was no guarantee you would come away with any measure of success. Our visits to the family became an almost daily event. The SASSA thing popped in the conversation every time. The stories took on a different spin every time. I found the need to capture this on camera grew every time we visited. So after checking out the lay of the land on one or two trips home I figured out how to get the shot. Anyway, I got m