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JOHN DLUDLU: Grants ruling more evidence of Zuma rot
The court now believes we could be teetering perilously close to the brink we were at earlier in 2017
As a rule of thumb, it’s always unwise for laymen to comment on the merits or otherwise of rulings by the judiciary. But the judiciary, which is part of the architecture of democracy-supporting institutions, has become such a fundamental part of our body politic that it’s hard to resist the temptation to decipher the implications of last week’s remarks by the Constitutional Court on the social grants crisis. After another progress report by the Department of Social Development, including its South African Social Security Agency (Sassa), the country’s highest court ordered that the department present a contingency plan and a programme to communicate with the 17-million recipients of social assistance every month. In essence the court, which has in effect been forced to monitor what should be an administrative function of the government, now believes we could be teetering perilously close to the brink we were at earlier in 2017. To refresh readers’ minds, at the beginning of 2017, the...
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