Sassa’s invalid contract with Cash Paymaster Services was extended for six months by the ConCourt in March
The agency admitted in court papers there was no feasible solution to assist around 2.8-million beneficiaries before the April 1 deadline
With less than a month to transfer core components of the scheme to CPS, Sassa has to answer how it will deliver cash-based social grants
Sassa will for the first time make electronic payments to social grant beneficiaries through its new corporate Postbank account on February 1
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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.
Readers write in about health equity, the Post Office, and Krotoa
Here are the stories of the many who have to survive on very little.
The company gets the go-ahead to debit the accounts of social grant beneficiaries.
Magda Wierzycka might be the richest woman in SA but she hasn’t lost sight of those with very little
The two biggest Net1 investors admit to CPS worries, but disagree on scale and severity.
The Concourt repeatedly steps in to protect vulnerable people and perform what former deputy chief Justice Moseneke calls its "transformative role"
The judiciary stands to gain more legitimacy if it manages to confront the impunity of Sassa and Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini.
Constitutional delinquent: Bathabile Dlamini is part of a political culture in an unresponsive government. (Photo: Ashraf Hendricks/GroundUp)
Grant recipients are often at a loss about who they are dealing with, which makes them vulnerable
The social development minister appeared before Scopa on Tuesday and said that feedback on the Sassa agreement with CPS will be ready by Friday.
Read the directions from the Constitutional Court in the Sassa/Black Sash matter.
In terms of its original ruling, CPS, once contracted, acts as an organ of the state and has to provide a service.
Absa fought tooth and nail on a previous tender, but now it is conspiciously absent.
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.
"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.
Undoubtedly social grants will still be paid but some very tough questions need to be answered.
Most black South Africans think the government is doing a good job in this area, but coloureds, whites and Asians are not as enthusiastic.
Look beyond the fawning and you’ll see some horrifying flaws in Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan’s budget, writes Patrick Bond.
Some social grant beneficiaries are so deeply in debt that much of each month’s grant goes to paying back a loan.
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South Africa’s children are bearing the brunt of increasing food prices – and the effects may be permanent.
The opposition says grants create dependency and small business is the way to go to create work.
Society’s most vulnerable are at the mercy of micro-lenders and trapped in a vicious cycle of debt
A Stats SA survey has shown that social grants assist 30.2% of South Africans, with 45.5% of households receiving at least one grant.