South Africa:
Campaign to allay fears about social subsidies
SAnews.gov.za, March 3, 2017
The Ministry of Social Development will launch a national public and stakeholder engagement campaign to allay public fears and anxieties around benefit payments… Read more »
South Africa:
Minister Batabile Dlamini explains the MEC in charge of social development
South Australian Government, 3 March 2017
The Minister of Social Development, MP Batabile Dlamini, met with MECs responsible for social development and regional executives from South African Social Security… Read more »
South Africa:
Corruption watchdog joins calls for Batabile Dlamini's removal
News24Wire, March 2, 2017
Corruption watchdogs have called for the sacking of Social Development Minister Batabile Dlamini over his handling of Mr Sassa's distribution preparations… Read more »
South Africa:
Sassa fiasco reeks of rot – Cosatu
News24Wire, March 2, 2017
Cosatu has called on President Jacob Zuma to intervene in the ongoing South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) crisis and, if possible, eliminate the Department of Social Security. read more “
South Africa:
Opposition parties urge finance minister to respond to subsidy crisis
News24Wire, March 1, 2017
The Democratic Alliance is calling for Social Development Minister Batabile Dlamini to be sacked and for Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan to take the reins of social grants… Read more »
South Africa:
Minister Dlamini summoned before Scopa
DA, March 2, 2017
The DA welcomes SCOPA's decision to summon Social Development Minister Batabile Dlamini to account for the SASSA subsidy crisis. read more “
South Africa:
Fire Dlamini and give Gordhan subsidy negotiations
DA, March 1, 2017
With just one month left until the end of the Cash Payer Service (CPS) contract and the switching of social grant payments to 17 million vulnerable South Africans,… Read more »
South Africa:
Sassa Grants – Collusion between the villainous minister and the Ministry of Finance
Daily Maverick, March 1, 2017
SASSA's crisis deepened on Wednesday, when the agency withdrew a late application to the Constitutional Court seeking an extension to the Cash Payroll Master Service within 24 hours… Read more »
South Africa:
Sassa CEO, minister absent from Crucial Scopa social grants conference
News24Wire, February 28, 2017
Social Development Minister Batabil Dlamini and Sassa CEO Thokozani Magwaza both missed Tuesday's key Scopa meeting to discuss the looming social grants crisis. read more “
South Africa:
It is the ANC's own fatal mistake to jeopardize social grants.
Daily Maverick, March 1, 2017
Many major crises are a series of seemingly isolated events occurring simultaneously in different sectors. In some cases, they are all-purpose flashes that do limited damage. But sometimes they… Read more »
