Sassa tells Parliament it’s not responsible for CPS deductions or actions
On Wednesday, Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini urged Parliament to call Cash Paymaster Services (CPS) to answer any questions MPs have about the company’s R1.1bn profit and irregular deductions from grant recipients’ accounts. Dlamini was in Parliament with the South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) for their weekly update on the payment of grants and the implementation of a new service provider‚ in line with a Constitutional Court ruling. ANC MP Sibongile Tsoleli asked about the R1.1bn profit CPS had declared to the Court, because in 2014 it ruled in that CPS should not be allowed to profit from the irregular contract to pay out SA’s 17-million social grants. However, Sassa CEO Thokozani Magwaza said of the CPS profit: "We are not looking into it because we are not involved." Tsoleli was not pleased with this response‚ saying Sassa needed to respond to all information around grants because its brand has "been tarnished by a lot of things". But Dlamini said that a...
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