HRC dismisses complaint about rights violations against Bathabile Dlamini
The South African Human Rights Commission (HRC) has dismissed a complaint against social development minister Bathabile Dlamini‚ which had called for her to be investigated for possible rights violations for her role in the social grants debacle.TimesLIVE has seen correspondence between the commission and activist and social worker John Clarke‚ who laid the complaint in August.Clarke alleged that Dlamini "violated the fundamental human rights of the most vulnerable and disadvantaged members of society by her conduct with respect to her handling of the invalidity of the social grants payment contract".Clarke said he acted on behalf of two stakeholders — former director-general of social development Zane Dangor and some of his clients who live off social grants."They [the clients] have mandated me to do so because of their anxiety that the social grants were at risk due to the controversy over the payment contract with Cash Paymaster Services, which the Constitutional Court has declar...
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