POLITICS LIVE: How the social grants fiasco exposes the mechanics of state capture
'Unaccountable to anyone, never having to appear before Parliament, never responsible for any decisions, they reshape the way the ministry does things until the outcome pleases Number One'
A story in this morning’s Business Day reveals how Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini and her advisers are behind the new contract with Cash Paymaster Services to pay social grants. And guess what? Ministerial ‘advisers’ were the ones piloting the plan which undermined the department and its officials. This from the story: Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini and a few hand-picked advisers have emerged as the clique that constructed the illegal new contract with Cash Paymaster Services (CPS), excluding officials of the department and the South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) from the process. Their exposure helps shed light on the bizarre goings on in the department and the agency that culminated in the director-general Zane Dangor resigning and two Sassa CEOs taking ill. It also appears to suggest that the delay in solving the crisis in grant distribution was engineered by a group of consultants acting at Dlamini’s behest. It is said the advisers were app...
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