President Jacob Zuma says South Africa's is a "funny democracy", citing calls for Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini to be fired before "anything has happened". "This is another kind of democracy that if you expect someone is going to make a mistake or is going to fail, that person must be punished before it happens. It's a funny democracy," he said during a question-and-answer session in Parliament. "I thought the […]
The Constitutional court has asked why Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini should not have to pay legal costs. Chief justice Mogoeng Mogoeng had strong words for Dlamini‚ suggesting "absolute incompetence" and saying she did not do her job by not finding out that SA Social Security Agency (Sassa) could not pay grants sooner. Sassa told the court it would do so in November 2015 and the minister alleges she didn’t know […]
The crisis over the invalid Cash Paymaster Services contract has been resolved with a brand new contract between it and Sassa, the Social Development Department said in Cape Town on Monday. “On the first [of April] we start a new contract, but with the same service provider,” SA Social Security Agency (Sassa) project leader Zodwa Mvulane said at a briefing in Cape Town. “We do not have to go to […]
Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini says the South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) has a plan in place to take over the distribution of social grants to 17 million beneficiaries. This is the agency's plan: - Phase 1: Planning for the transition including the phase-out of the current service provider, which must be done between the 2015/16 and 2016/17 financial years. Sassa has told the Constitutional Court the following: "We […]
Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini has insisted that everyone will be paid their grant come April 1, despite telling MPs that her department would not be able to make the deadline on finding a new service provider. This, she told Parliament on Wednesday, was despite the fact that the South Africa Social Security Agency (Sassa) payment contract was expected to "die a natural death" at the end of March. The […]
South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) has announced that early payment for all social grant beneficiaries. The agency says grants payments for December will commence on 28 of November and will end on the 15th of December 2016. SASSA also announced that funds will become available for collection at ATMs and other payment channels from 28 November 2016. Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini wishes to caution all social grant beneficiaries […]
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