Sassa says the SRD grant has placed a massive burden on the agency and plans to implement new software to help prevent fraud
Lawyers have questioned why there was no objection period for the R181-million contract to guard four facilities.
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Towards the end of level four of the lockdown, Sassa offices reopened for applications for old age pensions and childcare and foster care grants, but not for disability grants
President announces an ‘extraordinary coronavirus budget’ with R20-billion for healthcare and spending on the pandemic equal to 10% of national GDP
President Ramaphosa’s administration is planning to lay off 30 000 public servants in the next three years. More in this week’s unembargoed.
The tender deadline was originally postponed from February 28, and risks being postponed again.
THE END: A special edition on the Zuma years with ANC leaders’ reasons on what the former president did wrong
Catch up on Zuma and why he won’t go, the struggle to get water in Cape Town, a comment on why Viceroy may have come up short on Capitec, and more.
Dlamini maintains that there was nothing ”sinister or inappropriate” about her decision to make the ”workstream” leaders report directly to her.
Minister Bathabile Dlamini sought to suggest that President Jacob Zuma is satisfied with her performance.