GENEVIEVE QUINTAL: Dithering Hawks yet to take Bathabile Dlamini to court
Prosecution authorities have all they need to proceed with a case of perjury, but nothing is happening
18 March 2021 - 17:06
Bathabile Dlamini has still not been held accountable for her part in the 2017 SA Social Security Agency (Sassa) debacle, more than two years after a Constitutional Court judgment found that her conduct was “reckless and grossly negligent”.
While serving as social development minister Dlamini was labelled incompetent over her handling of the fiasco, which put almost 17-million grant beneficiaries at risk of missing payment of their social grants. However, she denied responsibility for the saga and in doing so purportedly lied to the highest court in the land. ..
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