The spectre of the social grants controversy looms large over Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini, who has been missing more often than not from Parliament’s committee meetings this year – in sharp contrast to her relatively better attendance record last year. Since the reopening of Parliament in January, Dlamini and[…]
Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini says all is on track to ensure that 17 million beneficiaries receive their social grants next week. Dlamini says some beneficiaries will get paid on Monday – April 3, since the first falls on a weekend. Only beneficiaries who receive their grants through their merchant[…]
Sassa and Cash Paymaster Services (CPS) must continue paying social grants until another entity which can do so is found, the Constitutional Court ruled on Friday. The declaration of the invalidity of the previous contract between the SA Social Security Agency and CPS would be suspended for 12 months, Justice Johan[…]
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[…]
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[…]
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[…]
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,[…]
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[…]
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[…]
The Democratic Alliance (DA) has challenged Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini to join it on a shopping trip to test if R753 was enough to sustain an entire family for a month. In a reply to a DA parliamentary question, Dlamini said social grant beneficiaries should be able to live[…]
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