Dlamini says if Zuma fires her, she will not fight the decision
Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini, who is at the heart of the social grants fiasco, says the Constitutional Court ruling is her ‘second chance in life’
Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini has said that if President Jacob Zuma decides to remove her‚ she will not fight his decision, confirming that she saw the Constitutional Court ruling as her "second chance in life" to show she is capable of doing her job. Dlamini was speaking at a social grants roadshow meeting in Kempton Park on Friday‚ hours after the court ruled that Cash Paymaster Services (CPS) would continue to pay social grants for the next 12 months. Most of her speech dealt with explaining how the grants crisis had unfolded‚ a speech very similar to the one she delivered last week to the standing committee on public accounts. "I think this should be in the minds of all of us. Before we started here I said to all the South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) officials‚ ‘Let’s calm down and whatever decision [by the court] must be in favour of the people’‚" Dlamini said. "If it means that the president takes a decision that I must go‚ I can’t stand in the way o...
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