SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
August a test run for takeover of social grants payments
The South African Social Development Agency (Sassa) and the South African Post Office would conduct a dry run of paying out social grants on the new system in August before having to go it alone, Social Development Minister Susan Shabangu said. The Constitutional Court has given Sassa until September 31 to end its contract with Cash Paymaster Services (CPS), which facilitates cash payments to 2.5-million beneficiaries. In March 2018, the apex court granted a further six-month extension of Sassa’s illegal contract with CPS after the agency once again failed to get its house in order. Millions of beneficiaries The disclosure that Sassa would not be able to take over grants once the contract of CPS expired in April 2017 caused panic over whether the millions of beneficiaries would be paid. Under former social development minister Bathabile Dlamini’s stewardship, Sassa approached the Constitutional Court twice in a year to request it to allow the agency to extend the illegal contract wi...
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