The South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) is preparing to negotiate a new contract with Cash Paymaster Services (CPS) for the payment of social grants, and the negotiations will be "tough", the director-general for Social Development, Zane Dangor, told parliament today.
Briefing the Social Development portfolio committee on the next stage in the stalled process of the takeover by SASSA of the payment system by 1 April, Dangor denied rumours that SASSA would have to pay CPS much more than the current contract.
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