With the grants deadline 100 days away, Sassa and the Post Office ‘have yet to meet’
Treasury director-general says technical teams from the two organisations have yet to meet, but Bathabile Dlamini denies this
The technical teams from the Post Office and the South African Social Security Agency (Sassa)‚ which are central to finding a solution to the social grants debacle‚ have yet to meet. This was the shock revelation made by Treasury director-general Dondo Mogajane‚ who was addressing a joint sitting of the social development portfolio committee and the standing committee on public accounts (Scopa) on Wednesday night. The meeting began around 6pm and was a follow-up to a sitting on Monday‚ where it became clear that the Post Office and Sassa had not found middle ground on how social grants should be administered. Following a March Constitutional Court ruling‚ the two entities began negotiating how the Post Office would take over the administration of grants. The court had previously ruled that the agency’s contract with Cash Paymaster Services (CPS) was invalid. Auditor-General Kimi Makwetu‚ who attended Wednesday’s meeting‚ expressed concern over the tight timeframe. "When we wake up t...
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