Treasury, Reserve Bank and Constitutional Court’s expert panel to look into social grant investigation
The chief justice ordered a panel of experts convened by the Constitutional Court to meet with the Reserve Bank and Treasury to recommend whether state employees should be investigated for possible malpractice or obstruction of court orders relating to the national welfare system. An investigation, if carried out, would be conducted by Treasury and would determine whether employees of South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) and the Department of Social Development should be prosecuted, Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng said in court documents on Wednesday. The recommendation should be made by January 29. Mogoeng also asked the panel to decide whether the Department of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation should act "to ensure that there is an end to Sassa’s lack of proper institutional governance, capacity and oversight by way of technically and administratively skilled management as well as a board of qualified experts". The Constitutional Court is co-ordinating a process to bring ...
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