South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) Pay Point Locations

The dataset contains the point locations of South Africa Social Security Agency (SASSA) pay points. The dataset is a third party entity published by the South African National Treasury (NT) through the NT's Vulekamali Data Portal (https://geo.vulekamali.gov.za/#category-2). Vulekamali is an easily accessible online data portal that was developed by NT in conjunction with Imali Yethu to promote budget transparency and public participation.

The physical location of the SASSA pay points are deemed as a service point and form part of the service point consortium that includes clinics, schools, post offices and police stations. The South African constitution mandates national, provincial and local governments to provide accessible services to the public through these service points. SASSA paypointss offer eligible South Africans social security services in the form of various grants.

The data was originally accessed and downloaded as a spreadsheet on 01 November 2020 by SAEON. The spreadsheet was then modified into a tidy table, alphabetically arranging the SASSA pay point locations by name in ascending order. This tidy dataset, containing the centroids (latitude and longitude coordinates) of the pay points was then used to create a shapefile of the SASSA pay point locations.