Parliament postpones social grants meeting so minister can attend ANC lekgotla
Wednesday’s much-anticipated meeting of Parliament’s social development portfolio committee has been postponed as Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini has to attend the ANC lekgotla later in the week. It appears that the lekgotla will tackle the question of the future payment of social grants. The aim of the committee meeting was to get an update from the South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) on its readiness to takeover the payment of about R140bn in social grants to about 17-million people a year from April 1. This comes amid deep concern that Sassa will not be ready and that the agency will have to extend the contract it has with Net1 subsidiary Cash Paymaster Services, which the Constitutional Court has declared to be invalid. The contract is due to expire on March 31. Committee members learnt about the cancellation on Sunday night. Sassa was also expected to give an update of its report to the Constitutional Court regarding its failure to meet the deadlines the ...
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