Let Gordhan sort out the social grants mess, says DA
The party also wants Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini investigated for ‘wilfully misleading’ Parliament when she said Sassa would be ready to pay grants
President Jacob Zuma should remove the responsibility for organising a new system for the payment of social grants from the "negligent" Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini and give it to Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan, the DA says. That party will ask Zuma to issue a proclamation giving Gordhan the lead role in the contractual negotiations with Net1 subsidiary Cash Paymaster Services (CPS) and the appointment of a new service provider. The DA will also ask Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane to investigate Dlamini for breaching the executive members’ ethics code for "wilfully misleading" Parliament in her 2016 budget vote speech in the National Assembly.
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