PAYMENTS FIASCO:
Sassa scraps contracts of minister’s workstreams
It has been alleged that Dlamini and a few handpicked advisers had constructed the illegal new contract with Cash Paymaster Services
South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) CE Thokozani Magwaza has cancelled the contracts of the workstreams which had been established and of which the staff had been hired by Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini. It has been alleged that Dlamini and a few handpicked advisers, in the form of the workstreams, had constructed the illegal new contract with Cash Paymaster Services (CPS). In doing this, they had excluded Sassa and department officials. The Treasury wrote to Magwaza in May informing him that the deviation from normal procurement processes requested by Sassa had not been approved. The workstreams operated parallel to Sassa’s standard functions and appeared to usurp the agency staff’s roles and responsibilities. Sassa spokesman Paseka Letsatsi confirmed that Magwaza had cancelled the contracts on June 29. "The National Treasury wrote to Sassa to say the appointment of the workstreams was irregular so it is incumbent on the accounting authority to act on it, so...
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