JOHANNESBURG, March 6 – A full bench of judges at the Constitutional Court in Johannesburg on Tuesday reserved judgment on the request from the South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) to have its controversial contract with Cash Paymaster Services (CPS) — to pay welfare grants to millions of beneficiaries — extended by six months. “If you […]
PARLIAMENT – Parliament’s watchdog public accounts committee (Scopa) on Tuesday, gave the Social Security Agency’s of South Africa (Sassa) a fortnight to submit a detailed strategic plan on taking over welfare grant payments after it struggled to provide detail on preparations, seemingly for fear of contradicting Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini. The demand followed […]
PARLIAMENT, May 12 – Parliament’s watchdog public accounts committee has written to Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng to ask that it be given insight into the monitoring of grant payment by Cash Paymaster Services for this year and the process of finding a new service provider to play that role thereafter. “The Standing Committee on Public […]
JOHANNESBURG, April 10 (ANA) – Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini has “noted the speculative reports” which she said were “disguised as an investigation by the Sunday Times”, saying this “this old and tired story” was probed by the Hawks and “closed” two years ago. The Sunday Times reported that it “has seen text messages that […]
JOHANNESBURG, April 2 (ANA) – The African National Congress on Sunday welcomed the “incident free” payment of social grants by the South African Social Security Agency (Sassa). “By the close of the day yesterday [Saturday], more than six million transactions valuing over R3 billion had been processed, giving much needed financial support to millions of […]
PRETORIA, April 1 (ANA) – Over 2.6 million beneficiaries had already accessed their social grants by 10am, the social development department said on Saturday morning. Social grants payments were underway across the country for beneficiaries who received their grants through ATMs and merchants. At 10am, 2.6 million beneficiaries had already accessed their grants, the department […]
PRETORIA, March 26 (ANA) – It is “all systems go” for the payment of social grants to about 17 million recipients on April 1, the social development department and the South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) said on Sunday. The department and Sassa “wishes to inform South Africans, especially social grants recipients, that all is on […]
CAPE TOWN, March 20 (ANA) – Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane is pushing ahead with a two-pronged investigation into welfare grants, in which the Constitutional Court intervened last Friday. Oupa Segalwe from the Public Protector’s office said the Chapter Nine institution would continue a probe into maladministration of grants, departing from the apparent failure of the […]
PARLIAMENT, March 17 (ANA) – A special meeting is to be called in Parliament so that the social development department and the South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) can present a plan of action following Friday’s Constitutional Court ruling which permitted that Cash Paymaster Services (CPS) continue paying welfare grants on behalf of the State […]
JOHANNESBURG, March 17 – The Constitutional Court on Friday ordered Cash Paymaster Services’s contract to pay welfare grants to run for another 12 months, at no increased cost, to avert what it called a catastrophe come April. In a majority judgment written by Judge Johan Froneman, the court pointed a finger at government for failing […]