There would be chaos if the South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) was not allowed to extend its contract with Cash Paymaster Services (CPS) for six months, the Constitutional Court heard on Tuesday. Sassa approached the court in February requesting the extension, just shy of two months until the unlawful contract with CPS was to come to an end, as ordered by the same court in 2017. It has been argued the extension was needed for the seamless transition to a new system for the payment of social grants. The South African Post Office was ready to take over the payment of social grants but needed the assistance of CPS on a diminishing scale. Advocate Aslam Bava, for the post office, said there needed to be a transition process. "It is not that on day one everything cuts off and goes over [to the new system]…," he told the court. Advocate Nazeem Cassim, for Sassa, said there needed to be a changeover from the old Sassa card, which was on the Net1 domain, of which CPS is a subsidia...
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