The interministerial committee on social security has given the South African Post Office (Sapo) and the South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) three weeks to develop a pass-over plan which will ensure the lawful, efficient and cost-effective provision of grants in 2018. However, the panel of experts appointed by the Constitutional Court has raised concerns about the committee’s work and flagged the Post Office’s involvement in grant distribution as potentially expensive because a competitive bidding process was absent. But there had been an in-principle agreement with the banking sector on a hybrid model, which would entail the introduction of Sassa special accounts and the setting up of commercial accounts through which funds would be disbursed, MPs heard on Tuesday. Minister in the Presidency Jeff Radebe on Tuesday painted a rosy picture of progress while briefing a joint sitting of Parliament’s standing committee on public accounts and the portfolio committee on social dev...
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