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
The agency has less than a month to fully migrate core components of the grants scheme from Cash Paymaster Services, as ordered by the ConCourt
Roughly 2.8-million beneficiaries will not get their grant payments if the contract with CPS is not extended, the agency argued in court papers.
The agency has 31 days to migrate core components of the grants scheme from CPS to the South African Post Office, as agreed in December last year.
It’s D-day but social grant beneficiaries are in the same place they were a year ago and key questions still remain
A panel of experts expects Sassa to renege on its Constitutional mandate to pay grants to over 10-million recipients.
CPS argues no party during the court process suggested that it should be barred from participating in any future tenders in regards to grant payment.
A panel wants the treasury to take over paying social grants as the agency can’t get its act together
In 2015 Dlamini ordered the appointment of work streams, which have cost at least R50 million and have been found to be in breach of procurement rules
As on Monday and Tuesday, Dlamini continued to insist on providing what she deemed important context, but seemed mostly to be irrelevant detail
Under cross-examination the social development minister dodged questions about her ‘work streams’ and her role in the 2017 social grants crisis
The ConCourt appointed Ngoepe to head the inquiry into whether Dlamini should be held personally liable for the costs incurred during Sassa crisis.
It signed a deal with the Post Office yet at the same time asked that the invalid CPS contract be extended
‘This is the best deal for the state and we have proved that. Whatever the price is, we are paying ourselves’
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 alternative payments scheme was suggested two weeks ago by the expert panel set up by Sassa and Black Sash under the supervision of the court.
There is a danger that Sassa, under pressure from political principals, will make hasty decisions, with consequences that could be expensive.
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 Sassa and Sapo have been entangled in a lengthy negotiation battle to try work out a deal for the payment and management of social grants.
Five months now remain for Sassa to find an alternative service provider to handle the core aspects of the grants scheme.
What Sassa is now proposing is that the bidding process be reopened on November 3 2017.
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
Azande Consultin, under investigation by the Hawks for alleged payment irregularities with an earlier Sassa contract, was granted a new R400m tender.
Dlamini said the procurement process will last for three months, from July through September
From this Wednesday, the company will pay him a salary of some R660 000 per month to work for at most a half-day for up to two more years
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 missed every deadline during a process in which she was found responsible for a crisis around the payment of grants.
The social development minister has missed a deadline to explain to the Court why she should not pay legal fees from her own pocket.
The two biggest Net1 investors admit to CPS worries, but disagree on scale and severity.