Dlamini ‘derailed Sassa grant plans’
Agency head claims social development minister decided in 2015 to create payment workstreams that would report directly to her
Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini knew in July 2015 about the inability of the South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) to take over the payment of social grants. This is according to Sassa CE Thokozani Magwaza in an affidavit filed in the Constitutional Court on Friday. Magwaza approached the court last week, claiming Dlamini had lied in her affidavit in which she explained why she should not be held personally responsible for the grants fiasco. In her affidavit, Dlamini placed the blame at Magwaza’s feet. In an attempt to clear his name and set the record straight, Magwaza has now told the court that Dlamini had "derailed" Sassa’s plans to take over the grant payments. He said Dlamini wrote to then Sassa CE Virginia Petersen in 2015, informing her about her decision to appoint workstreams that would report directly to the minister so she could "retain direct control of the implementation process". He said the workstreams were given a broad mandate to take over the ...
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