Abstract
On 17 March 2017, the Constitutional Court handed down a ground-breaking judgment which, among other things, prevented an imminent crisis that threatened to disrupt monthly social grant payments to millions of poor and vulnerable South Africans. The outcome of the case at issue, The Black Sash Trust v Minister of Social Development and Others (CCT48/17) [2017] ZACC 8, has been hailed as a ‘precedent-setting’ landmark by human rights activists and the academic community as far as access to food (through payment of grants in a timely fashion) is concerned.
