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South Africa: Sassa Grants - While Pressure Mounts From All Quarters for a Solution, Bathabile Dlamini Remains Silent
Daily Maverick, 3 March 2017
On Thursday, Corruption Watch and Cosatu have called for Minister of Social Development Bathabile Dlamini to be sacked for her role in the self-manufactured emergency with regard… Read more »
Call to Fire South Africa's Social Grants Minister Dlamini
Minister of Social Development Bathabile Dlamini has been summoned once again to appear before a parliamentary committee to account for the social grants crisis. Whether she will appear - only time will tell as she skipped a previous committee request. In the meantime, there are growing calls from oppostion parties and non governmental organisations to fire the minister.
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The SA Social Security Agency has denied that it will approach the Constitutional Court to request an extension of an illegal contract with Cash Paymaster Services - which ... Read more »
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Arif Ismail of the Reserve Bank has raised concerns that money for social grants is being funnelled to finance airtime, electricity, and loan repayments for subsidiary companies of ... Read more »
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The government wants to move the social grant payment system away from a private firm whose contract was declared invalid and that expires in March, back to the South African ... Read more »
