Sassa still has no plan for distributing social grants
Sassa chief financial officer Tsakeriwa Chauke admits to a lack of planning, including how to migrate data from CPS to the agency or another supplier
The South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) admitted on Tuesday it had no plan to take over the distribution of social grants when the Cash Paymaster Services (CPS) contract extension ends in 2018. Sassa chief financial officer Tsakeriwa Chauke made the admission when he and a delegation from the agency appeared before Parliament’s standing committee on public accounts to give a progress report on what the agency was doing to meet the deadline. The Constitutional Court allowed the CPS social grants contract to run until April 18. "We will have a workshop with the Post Office tomorrow [Wednesday] where we will ascertain the services that they can offer us. We want to develop a build, operate and transfer system that will help us to take over the full stock of what is supposed to happen," CEO Thokozani Magwaza told MPs. On further probing by MPs, Chauke admitted there was still much to be established, including how to migrate data on the grant system from CPS to the agency or ano...
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