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Social Development
SASSA progress report on implementation of Constitutional Court order; Vacant posts in SASSA
28 Mar 2018
South African Social Security Agency and Others v Minister of Social Development and Others (CCT48/17) [2018] ZACC 9 (23 March 2018)
Black Sash Trust v Minister of Social Development and Others (Freedom Under Law NPC Intervening) (CCT48/17) [2017] ZACC 20; 2017 (9) BCLR 1089 (CC) (15 June 2017)
Black Sash ...
Social Development
SASSA progress report on Constitutional Court judgment and provincial state of readiness
14 Mar 2018
The SASSA progress report dealt with the 1 April 2018 state of readiness, the change programme for insourcing grant payment functions, the South African Post Office (SAPO) progress and SASSA’s engagement with banks. The 70% of beneficiaries who receive their grants electronically or through shop merchants would be paid on ...
Social Development
SASSA finances: Internal Audit Committee report; Department Quarter 1 & 2 performance
7 Mar 2018
The internal audit committee reported on the roles, finances and activities it was engaged in within the South African Social Security Agency (SASSA), and indicated its main role was to provide oversight and advice to management to ensure that they evaluated and put measures in place to close gaps in ...
Social Development
SASSA progress report on implementation of Constitutional Court order, with Minister
28 Feb 2018
SASSA told the Committee that there had been some changes since the previous week’s meeting. It appeared that the March 2017 Constitutional Court judgement had ruled that SASSA could accept a tender from Cash Paymaster Services (CPS). CPS had filed an application at the Constitutional Court in February to request ...
Social Development
SASSA progress report on implementation of Constitutional Court order
14 Feb 2018
The purpose of meeting with the Department of Social Development and SASSA had been to report on progress in implementing the Constitutional Court Order but media statements by the Minister's spokesperson and the media statement that SASSA had applied to the court to extend the Cash Paymaster Services contract for ...
Social Development
Foster Care System: Progress Report by Department of Social Development, with Minister
22 Nov 2017
The Committee invited the Department of Social Development (DSD) and the South Africa Social Security Agency (SASSA) to give progress reports on the foster care system in South Africa. Highlights of the brief by the DSD included the total number of children receiving foster child care grants; the use of ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
IMC on resolution of SASSA/SAPO impasse, with Minister in the Presidency
21 Nov 2017
The Inter-Ministerial Committee briefed a joint meeting of the Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA) and the Portfolio Committee on Social Development on resolutions reached towards an agreement between South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) and South African Post Office (SAPO) on payment of social grants.
Minister in the Presidency ...
Social Development
East Rand chronic underfunding of Child Welfare organisations: Social Development Department response to petition
1 Nov 2017
The Department of Social Development and the Gauteng Provincial Department of Social Development presented its response to the Committee to a petition submitted by Mr M Waters (DA) on the underfunding of child welfare services, on behalf of the East Rand. The Department acknowledged the fact that social services were ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
SASSA and SAPO: progress in overcoming deadlock on social grant contract
1 Nov 2017
The Standing Committee on Public Accounts and the Portfolio Committee on Social Development met to hear a report back on the mediation meetings of National Treasury with South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) and South African Post Office (SAPO) initiated after a deadlock had been reached on the plan to ...
Public Accounts (SCOPA)
SASSA progress with SAPO: hearing with Ministers
31 Oct 2017
The meeting was an engagement between the Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA), the Portfolio Committee on Social Development, the Department of Social Development (DSD), the South African Social Security Agency (SASSA), the South African Post Office (SAPO) and National Treasury to deal with the appointment of the service provider ...