The social development minister has 43 days to ensure the 17-million people get their money. She has had since 2014 to sort out the problem.
Sassa missed a critical deadline this week
Undoubtedly social grants will still be paid but some very tough questions need to be answered.
The warning comes in the wake of a foul-mouthed rant by Lumka Oliphant, the spokesperson of Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini.
The ANC Women’s League criticised a newspaper report which claimed that its president was drunk while addressing a gala dinner in Germiston.
It’s no surprise that the league’s website is languishing given that the organisation’s leaders struggle to distinguish fact from fiction online.
Acquiescing to virginity testing in KwaZulu-Natal represents the start of an entrenched tolerance for patriarchy in the organisation’s ranks.
Placards making reference to Jacob Zuma’s 2006 rape case overshadow ANC leader’s speech.
Sassa received more that 1 000 complaints from social grant beneficiaries about deductions for funeral policies and electricity.
Mantashe said that Mogoeng’s public talk about the Concourt’s Nkandla judgment would provoke verbal attacks against the judiciary by politicians.
The league’s already delayed national conference will take place even later than expected amid concerns that the organisation is losing its relevancy.
In five years’ time, South Africa will be led by Baleka Mbete or Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma – that’s if the ANC Women’s League (ANCWL) has its way.
The social development minister says there is insufficient evidence to support claims that "repeat abortions" are a large-scale problem in SA.
Bidders were culled for not offering voice verification, which has not been used for two years
Public protector Thuli Madonsela’s office has said she will investigate the handing out of food in Tlokwe by the minister of social development.
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/ 17 February 2012
Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini says the re-registration of more than 15-million social grant beneficiaries will begin on March 1.
In an attempt to curb fraud, the Social Security Agency has announced those receiving social grants will have to re-register to get benefits.
There are moves afoot to overhaul the social grant payout system to make it less cumbersome as some grant recipients wait hours in queues.
A government task team investigating restrictions on alcohol advertising would probably not recommend an outright ban, media reported on Wednesday.
A substance abuse summit has suggested tightening the
alcohol laws.
Sending a 49-member delegation to a United Nations gender summit in New York was a gross misuse of public funds, the DA said on Monday.
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/ 5 November 2010
Questionable Cabinet moves show that improved service delivery was the last thing on Zuma’s mind.
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/ 27 January 2009
The ANC parliamentary caucus is running its own election campaign and to grace the recent launch it ran a number of ads in Sunday newspapers.
A political analyst has urged the ANC Women’s League to elect a leader who would be brave, bold and decisive in championing women’s rights.
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/ 13 December 2007
The African National Congress Women’s League’s decision to postpone its planned Thursday meeting with the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) has deprived the latter of an opportunity to explain its general secretary’s controversial gender remarks made at the weekend, Cosatu said on Thursday.