Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini says the SA Post Office is not ready to take over the grants payment system. Dlamini was addressing the media at Regent Hotel in East London on Monday. She said the Post Office needed an integrated payment system, banking services, card production and the provision[…]
Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini failed to pitch for a meeting to account on preparations for appointing a new service provider to take-over South Africa Social Security Agency (Sassa) payments as ordered by the Constitutional Court. The Standing Committee On Public Accounts (Scopa) and the Social Developments Parliamentary Committee held[…]
The South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) has given an offer to the South African Post Office (SAPO) to take over the payment of social grants. The offer follows talks between the two entities in what has been described as a “closed procurement process”, the department of social development announced[…]
Government has assured the nation that the social security agency (Sassa) will be able to meet the Constitutional Court deadline to set-up a partnership with the Post Office for the payment of social grants by next year. This follows chairperson of the Parliament’s Standing Committee on Public Accounts, Themba Godi’s[…]
South African Post Office (SAPO) officials flew to Parliament only to be told they couldn’t make a presentation, after the South African Social Security Agency’s (Sassa’s) self-imposed timelines were moved back two weeks. Both Sassa and the SAPO appeared before the standing committee on public accounts (Scopa) on Tuesday evening[…]
The South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) is expecting to conduct a competitive bidding process for a new service provider from July, a Parliamentary reply has revealed. In her reply to DA MP Evelyn Wilson, Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini said a bidding committee has already begun work in finding[…]
Affidavits containing counter allegations between Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini, her former director general and the Sassa CEO will be at the centre of a probe ordered by the Constitutional Court to determine whether she should be held personally liable for the social grants payment debacle. The Constitutional Court on[…]
The South African Social Security Agency says a good presentation recently made by the South African Post Office has moved them a step closer to assist with the social grants scheme. Sassa project lead Zodwa Mvulane and CEO Thokozani Magwaza told MPs on Wednesday that talks with the Post Office[…]
Net1 UEPS Technologies Inc.’s founder, Serge Belamant, will retire early after a storm of controversy over a contract it holds to distribute billions of dollars of welfare payments to 17 million people. Belamant, who founded the company 27 years ago, will quit at the end of the month rather than[…]
Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini has told MPs that more than 50 000 grant beneficiary complaints were incomplete as they were still waiting for affidavits from complainants. Dlamini told the National Council of Provinces on Tuesday that the South African Social Security Agency had received 95 429 disputes from grant[…]
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