This is after Concourt has extended CPS’s contract for one year.
The Constitutional Court in its judgment in the SA Social Security Agency (Sassa) saga this morning ruled that Cash Paymaster Services (CPS) should continue to pay grants for 12 months from April 1 to ensure that 17 million vulnerable beneficiaries continue to get their payments.
Justice Johan Froneman was scathing in his criticism of Sassa and Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini for creating an unnecessary crisis that has caused a contract declared invalid in 2013 to be continued.
He listed a number of conditions, including major oversight of how the contract would run for the next year.
Dlamini has also been ordered to explain to the court why she should not pay from her own pocket for the costs of an application that dealt with the grant payment debacle.
