CABINET BRIEFING
Ministerial task team to fix social grant crisis before assigning blame
Cabinet had appointed a ministerial task team to consider whether anyone should be held accountable for the social grants debacle, Minister in the Presidency Jeff Radebe said on Thursday. He was pressed by journalists at a post-Cabinet media briefing on whether Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini would be held responsible for the crisis precipitated by the failure of the Department of Social Development and the South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) to develop an alternative method of paying out social grants when the contract with Cash Paymaster Services (CPS) expires on March 31. The CPS contract to distribute R11bn in grants monthly to about 17-million beneficiaries was declared invalid by the Constitutional Court in 2014. The solution to the crisis depends on the outcome of a Constitutional Court judgment. Radebe said questions of assigning responsibility would only come once the task team had looked into all the issues. "We will discuss this as a ministerial tas...
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