Sassa ordered to give top court answers on Cash Paymaster Services
Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng instructs the social grants agency to account for the Cash Paymaster Services contract
Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng has instructed the South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) to inform the Constitutional Court whether it has entered into a new contract with Cash Paymaster Services (CPS). He gave Sassa until Monday to provide the court with full details of any agreement. Mogoeng’s directive forces Sassa’s hand to be more transparent and reveal details of its agreement with CPS. Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini was unable to answer questions about the new CPS deal when she appeared before Parliament’s standing committee on public accounts (Scopa) earlier this week and when she addressed the media last week. Mogoeng made the request for further information on Wednesday after a follow-up report on the payment of social grants was lodged with the court last week by Dlamini and Sassa acting CEO Thamo Mzobe. In the report, the two told the court the payment of social grants no longer fell under its supervisory jurisdiction. But in his directive Mogoeng sai...
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