THE THICK END OF THE WEDGE
PETER BRUCE: Constitutional Court faces questions too
'Who at the Constitutional Court was in favour of waiting until absolutely the very last moment before doing one single thing?'
The Constitutional Court has once again ridden to the rescue of our communal sense of what is right, demanding from a rapidly submerging social development minister that she answer, by March 15, the following questions: • Who was the person who decided that the South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) would not be able to pay 17-million social grants by the beginning of April?; • When did Sassa know it could not pay (distribute) the grants itself?; • Why was "this court" not immediately informed of the fact and who decided it was not necessary to tell the court?; and • Was the minister informed that Sassa would not be able to pay the grants itself by the end of March 2017 and, if so, when did this happen? Lovely stuff, but the Constitutional Court needs to be asked some questions too. When did the court first become aware that there was a possibility Sassa would not be able to pay the grants itself by the end of March 2017? When it did become aware, what did it do? Do the learne...
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