CPS contract has to be extended otherwise grants won’t get paid
Black Sash’s counsel says ‘there has been a serious breach of the Constitution’; CPS wants even more money per beneficiary in any new contract
The Constitutional Court is beneficiaries’ last resort if they want to receive their social grants at the end of the month, Black Sash argued on Wednesday. Geoff Budlender SC, on behalf of the advocacy group, said the "painful truth" was that the executive and Parliament had failed in terms of their oversight roles, which meant the court had to step in, adding that the Constitution provided for this when the other two arms of state had failed in their duties. Black Sash has approached the court on an urgent basis asking, among other things, that the court’s oversight role be reinstated over the contract between the South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) and Cash Paymaster Services (CPS). In 2014, the court found the contract between CPS and Sassa invalid, but this finding had been suspended so that social grants could be paid until March 31 2017. Sassa had assured the court that on April 1 2017 it would be able to take over the payment of grants; however, this is no longer the...
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