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All on track for Sassa grant payouts: Dlamini

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[…]

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CPS and Sassa ordered to continue paying grants

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[…]

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Sassa grant-holders finally out of limbo

17 million social grant recipients on Friday morning were finally put out of limbo when the Constitutional Court  ruled that Cash Paymaster Services (CPS) will continue to pay South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) grants on 1 April. This until another entity is contracted to do so. In a much[…]

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ConCourt to hand down Sassa judgment

The Constitutional Court will hand down the much anticipated judgment in the South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) matter on Friday. The judgment is expected to be handed down at 10:00. On Wednesday the court heard an application by the Black Sash for an order that it exercise supervisory jurisdiction[…]

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Zuma: Why punish Dlamini before she has failed?

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[…]

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NET1: Peeling away the layers

In light of the SASSA debacle, actuary Magda Wierzycka analyses the financial web of Net1, the company that runs the social grant payment system. Given the controversy around Net1, I decided to look at Net1 from an investment analyst’s perspective and to try to understand exactly what Net1 does and how it generates[…]

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Court needs to craft solution to grants saga

Senior lecturer in public law at the University of Cape Town, Dr Cathy Powell says the Constitutional Court has no choice but to come up with a carefully crafted remedy to the social grants payments. The court will on Wednesday hear non-profit organisation Black Sash’s application to seek the reinstatement[…]

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Gordhan to appear before Scopa over Sassa crisis

Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan will appear before Parliament’s standing committee on public accounts (Scopa) on Tuesday to clear up Treasury’s stance on the social grants crisis. Committee chairperson Themba Godi said last week the meeting would help the committee understand Treasury’s reservations on the proposed new contract with current grants[…]

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Social grants to be paid through new CPS contract

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[…]

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