Cash Paymaster Services (CPS), which managed the distribution of welfare grants to more than 17-million South Africans, still owes the SA Social Security Agency (Sassa) about R1.5bn.

This is according to Sassa’s application filed in the high court in Pretoria in a bid to put a stop to CPS’s business rescue process and rather have the company liquidated. ..

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