The court decision on Shaun Abrahams, Jacob Zuma and Mxolisi Nzasana isn’t judicial overreach
KwaZulu-Natal this weekend played host to the ANC presidential race’s frontrunners.
In the absence of any other options, the Constitutional Court this week again deepened its involvement in the process to keep social grants flowing.
The front-runners for the ANC’s presidency have flimsy platitudes and little else to offer
Sapo and Sassa have been in a months-long deadlock over the details of a proposal to assist with the new grant scheme but a deal has now been reached
Treasury director general Dondo Mogojane says Sassa jumped the gun by excluding the Post Office from three of the four services Sassa required.
Sassa and Sapo are yet to reach a deal for the payment of social grants and their negotiations have been pushed back to November 17
Readers write in saying Sibongile Promise Khumalo’s story is untrue and Sassa is run like a spaza shop
The defence of Dlamini came after Democratic Alliance leader asked the president why he had not axed her.
Sassa and Sapo appeared before a joint parliamentary meeting on Tuesday and are attempting to work out a deal for the payment of social grants
What Sassa is now proposing is that the bidding process be reopened on November 3 2017.
Parliament’s social development portfolio committee will seek legal advice on whether to summon Dlamini.
Muthambi announced on Sunday the suspension of her chief financial officer and a deputy director general.
South Africans who deal with bureaucracy often blame its apparent paralysis, or at least lethargy, on corruption, incompetence or laziness.
The social development minister will be on her own to answer questions about the Sassa debacle
Sassa had been due to finish in August the evaluation of possible replacements for CPS.
To the women’s league’s chagrin, its former head is campaigning for Ramaphosa to be ANC leader
Come March 2018, the South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) may find itself in a "mad dash" to secure grant payments once again.
Dlamini accused newspapers of relegating positive stories about women to pages three or five
The campaign to become the ANC’s next president hit overdrive this weekend.
Northern Cape Premier Sylvia Lucas voiced her support for the president saying: “We showed them. He is our president!”
The new chief executive says she’s independent, despite being seen as a ‘friend’ of the social development minister
Alarm bells are ringing over the minister’s close ties with the agency’s new chief executive
The M&G’s series of first-hand accounts of the ANC’s national conferences through the eyes of insiders continues with another delegate update
ConCourt issues an order that gives the parties two weeks to agree on a referee to compile a report
Dlamini said the procurement process will last for three months, from July through September
Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini will find out on today if she is personally liable for legal costs.
For years Net1 had been criticised about its financial dealings with grant recipients, such as selling them life insurance.
Traditionally, the ANC has only allowed its members to campaign for positions after its policy conference, normally scheduled for July.
It will cost “plus minus” R6-billion and take five more years for Sassa to insource the payment of social grants, says Bathabile Dlamini.
The social development minister says the purchases were warranted, as the previous ministerial cars were bought in 2009.
The gloves are off in the ongoing spat between Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini and axed finance minister Pravin Gordhan.