Political pressure prevented the senior executives at South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) and the Department of Social Development from "doing the right thing" about the grant payment system, says MP Themba Godi. But Parliament should have done more, he told Barbara Maregele.
Godi, an African People's Convention MP, has served as chairperson for Parliament's standing committee on public accounts (Scopa) since 2005. Seated in his office at Parliament's Good Hope Building, he spoke candidly to GroundUp last week about SASSA and the agency's failure to take over the payment of social grants.
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