In terms of its original ruling, CPS, once contracted, acts as an organ of the state and has to provide a service.
Its job is to serve the poorest. Instead, the social development agency spins a web of doublespeak.
The demand follows a shambolic week during which officials failed to give adequate answers.
The inquiry is a reminder that democratic mechanisms are there, to be used by South Africans to drag some kind of accountability out of the executive.
Director general Zane Dangor says the method had been used before and would be the last option to disburse social security money to 17-million people.
Jeff Radebe says the Cabinet will meet some time next week to discuss the crisis created by the social development department and social grants agency
The social security agency’s contract with the company disbursing grants ends this month and it’s feared that 17-million people may not receive them.
Absa fought tooth and nail on a previous tender, but now it is conspiciously absent.
It believes it can bridge an unbreachable divide — but, don’t worry, there is apparently another plan
Opposition parties criticised Dlamini for being negligent and unprepared, during a meeting to detail the department’s plans regarding grant payments.
Correspondence suggests that Bathabile Dlamini’s approach was to make Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan jointly responsible for Sassa’s plan of action.
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.
The social development department’s ability to continue to make monthly welfare payments to about 17-million people is in jeopardy.
"Most child support grant beneficiaries say it’s impossible to get by on R350 a month."
No one’s sure whether, come April 1, social grants will be paid out as the agency bungles the process of bringing the system in-house
Bidders hoping to be part of Sassa’s grant payment system from April 1 have only a few details to get grants to 17-million people.
Sassa missed a critical deadline this week
Undoubtedly social grants will still be paid but some very tough questions need to be answered.
The department may have to extend its deal with Net 1 UEPS to continue with the R129-billion in annual payments when the contract ends in April.
A detailed inspection of the paper trail finds that the work claimed for was covered by an all-inclusive fee.
A detailed inspection of the paper trail finds that the work claimed for was covered by an all-inclusive fee.
Sassa received more that 1 000 complaints from social grant beneficiaries about deductions for funeral policies and electricity.
Minister Edna Molewa says the Mail & Guardian had not reported about her role in the Sassa case fairly.
For millions of South Africans, the monthly social grants are the difference between survival and starvation.
Every month, money is deducted from the accounts of hundreds of beneficiaries of social grants without their permission.
The government’s social security payment system is managed by a subsidiary of Net1, a company listed on stock exchanges in the US and Johannesburg.
Some social grant beneficiaries are so deeply in debt that much of each month’s grant goes to paying back a loan.
South Africa has disability grants but a doctor deemed his tuberculosis patient was not poor enough.
Society’s most vulnerable are at the mercy of micro-lenders and trapped in a vicious cycle of debt
Net1 subsidiaries are still advancing loans to welfare recipients, despite a state injunction to the contrary.
The DA has lost the case it brought against Marius Fransman and other figures, who were accused of canvassing for votes with food parcels.
The DA has accused Western Cape ANC chair Marius Fransman and Sassa CEO Virginia Petersen of handing out food parcels while campaigning for the ANC.