PUBLIC EXPENDITURE
KHAYA SITHOLE: Delivery of fees and grants a head–scratcher
Of all SA’s public expenditure items none is more prominent than social grants and higher education. For most of the past two years, these issues have been in the public eye for different reasons. In relation to social grants, the central issue has not been whether they ought to be paid, but rather how the distribution process ought to work. In relation to higher education, the conversation has migrated towards the question of whether more resources need to be allocated. For social grants, the current distribution model — with Cash Paymaster Services (CPS) and Grindrod Bank at the epicentre — has been soundly condemned for the criminal element associated with the original granting of the tender to CPS. In addition, CPS has been criticised for the practice of processing deductions from the cards of social grant beneficiaries, which leaves them with precious little to spend on core necessities.The Constitutional Court directed the state — through the South African Social Security Agen...
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