Constitutional Court demands answers from Sassa
The South African Social Security Agency and South African Post Office must explain delayed contingency plan
The latest development in the tense stand-off between the Constitutional Court and the South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) saw the court on Friday order the agency and the South African Post Office to explain why they had not revealed their contingency plan to the court on March 6. At a court hearing on Tuesday to consider Sassa’s urgent request for a six-month extension to the Cash Paymaster Services (CPS) contract from April 1, Sassa’s counsel indicated that it had no alternative plan to pay 2.8-million beneficiaries who receive their grants in cash at CPS pay points every month. The counsel said there would be chaos if the contract was not extended. Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng suggested that Sassa was laughing at the court. Judge Sisi Khampepe accused Sassa of blackmail. The court reserved judgment. But two days later, Sassa and the post office held a joint media conference at which they discussed a contingency plan. On Friday, the court ordered Sassa and the post offi...
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