Former social grants DG Zane Dangor blames ‘intolerable’ Sassa climate
Dangor clarifies he was not fired, and says the major disagreement with Bathabile Dlamini was on Constitutional Court obligations
The situation over arrangements for the payment of social grants had become so "intolerable" that he was forced to resign, Department of Social Development former director-general Zane Dangor said Monday. Dangor had worked closely with Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini as her special adviser for more than five years before being appointed as director general of the department in November last year. He threw in the towel on Friday. He would not detail the circumstances surrounding his departure but clarified that he definitely was not fired. "I don’t want to enter a mud-slinging match," Dangor said in an interview. He said he had been without sleep for two days and had just visited a doctor. Earlier media reports quoted Dangor as saying he resigned because of a complete breakdown of the relationship between him and Dlamini over the grant payments saga and the legal requirements which the South African Social Security Agency was obliged to comply with. "I resigned as a res...
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