Sassa kept information about paying social grants from me, Bathabile Dlamini says
The social development minister says she only heard that the SA Social Development Agency would not make the deadline when the work streams approached her in October 2016
Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini says that for six months, no one from the South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) told her that they would not be able to make the deadline to pay social grants. This was despite the agency contacting the state attorney’s office in April 2016, asking for advice on what to do because it would not be able to take over the administering of social grants by April 1 2017. Dlamini was speaking during an inquiry into whether she should be held personally liable for the Sassa fiasco, which led to the agency having to extend an illegal contract with Cash Paymaster Services (CPS) for the administration of social grants. Dlamini said she only heard that Sassa would not make the deadline when the work streams approached her in October 2016.
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