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Sunday Times reports that the South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) blocked former social development minister Bathabile Dlamini's pension payout to recoup the R2m the agency paid for VIP protection of her children back in 2015.
Sassa has taken both Dlamini and her former spokesperson, Lumka Oliphant, to court as it seeks to recover a total of R3.5m it paid for the security of their families. The agency wants Oliphant to pay back R1.4m used to protect her and her children. Dlamini, Oliphant and former Sassa CEO Virginia Petersen were served with summonses in February 2019. This week Dlamini, who is president of the ANC Women's League, insisted she did not know the reason why her pension was being withheld by the state after she resigned from parliament when she didn't make it into President Cyril Ramaphosa's cabinet. Sassa claims security upgrades were installed in the homes of Dlamini and Oliphant after they said their lives and those of their children were under threat. The auditor-general classified the expenditure as fruitless and wasteful. Dlamini blamed her political opponents for the state's refusal to pay out her pension. Last week the women's league national executive committee expressed its support for their president. Sassa CEO Busisiwe Memela denied that its court action was politically motivated.
- Read the original of the report in the above regard by Nonkululeko Njilo and Amanda Khoza at Sunday Times
- Read too, ANCWL demands the release of Bathabile Dlamini’s pension funds, at EWN
- And also, Bathabile Dlamini accuses justice department of lying about her pension, at BusinessLive
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