Daily Maverick reports that, with the SA Social Security Agency (Sassa) struggling to explain how 17-million people will receive their social grants in April, Cosatu on Thursday said Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini should resign or be dismissed.
The labour federation’s general secretary Bheki Ntshalintshali was clear on Thursday that Minister Dlamini and Sassa’s failure to find a service provider to deliver social grants and her desire to extend an illegal contract with Cash Paymaster Services (CPS) reeked of corruption and that she and her team should resign or be axed. He said the crisis appeared to be “deliberately made up to achieve a particular goal”, namely extending the contract with CPS, owned by Net1 UEPS. Cosatu appealed to President Jacob Zuma to intervene. Cosatu was briefing the media after the first meeting of its Central Executive Committee (CEC) for 2017.
- Read this report by Greg Nicolson in full at Daily Maverick
- Read too, Fire Bathabile Dlamini, says Cosatu, at The Citizen
- Read Cosatu’s full press statement from its CEC meeting at Cosatu Today
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