Still no plan to pay grants, Sassa tells Scopa, but we will talk to CPS
There is still no plan place to pay social grant recipients after end-March, and neither Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini nor Sassa CEO Thokozani Magwaza pitched up to explain why to Parliament’s standing committee on public accounts (Scopa) on Tuesday. Representatives from the South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) admitted to Scopa that Sassa did not have an alternative plan in place to continue paying grants to 17-million South Africans when 'the contract of Net1 subsidiary Cash Paymaster Services (CPS) expires on March 31. Sassa programme head Zodwa Mvulane told Scopa negotiations with CPS would begin on Wednesday to extend the current arrangement, with an increase in CPS’s service fee. The DA pointed out that according to CPS, talks were already under way. Furore over CEO Media reports on Tuesday morning said Sassa CEO Thokozani Magwaza had been suspended. He was not at Scopa’s hearing in Parliament, but other representatives said he took sick leave on Friday...
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