SOCIAL-SECURITY PAYMENTS
MP seeks urgent committee meeting to discuss grants fiasco
The department and Sassa 'have a lot to answer for about a road map to ensure grant provision is not jeopardised'
A member of the parliamentary standing committee on public accounts has asked for an urgent sitting to discuss the Department of Social Development and the South African Social Security Agency’s (Sassa’s) handling of the grants-payment fiasco. Committee member and DA MP David Ross has written to committee chairman Themba Godi, asking for an urgent meeting at which Constitutional Court justices were present to explain how Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini should be held accountable. Parliamentarians are set to return to Cape Town from a month-long recess on Tuesday. Godi said he had not yet seen Ross’s letter, but was likely to by the end of the week if it had been sent to his office. The committee management would meet on Wednesday and plan the committee’s itinerary for the coming quarter, he said. "We will be waiting on the programme of the committee, independent of Ross’s letter. I might see it when I return to the office and that might not even be the basis on which w...
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