AFFIDAVIT
Sassa crisis was self-created, says former DG Zane Dangor
Dangor’s explosive affidavit points to ‘self-created emergency to ensure a continued relationship with CPS’
The delay in the South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) taking over the payment of social grants appeared to be "self-created" to facilitate a continuous relationship with Cash Paymaster Services (CPS), former director-general in the Department of Social Development Zane Dangor said on Monday. Dangor resigned from his job at the height of the social grant debacle, citing a breakdown in the relationship between him and Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini. In an affidavit to the Constitutional Court, Dangor confirmed Sassa CE Thokozani Magwaza’s assertion that workstreams set up to look into taking over the payment of social grants were working as a parallel structure to Sassa and reporting directly to Dlamini. Dlamini has put the blame for the fiasco at the feet of Sassa officials, specifically the CE. Dangor said that based on the fear of possible legal challenges as a result of the workstreams approach to the relationship with CPS, as well as the "moral and politica...
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