#SCOPA MEMES : Bathabile Dlamini on grant debacle
Twitter went crazy as Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini faced Parliament’s Standing Committee on Public Accounts (Scopa) yesterday to discuss the impending social grants crisis.
Minister Bathabile Dlamini has been trending and criticized all over social media.
There were hilliarious memes that caught our attention:
Talk about throwing shade!!
Wagagagagagagagaga!!!!! "@Sello__J: The only Grants Bathabile Dlamini is concerned about #Sabcinquiry #Scopa pic.twitter.com/EGMUZrrbaG"
— 🇿🇦Linx'o Zulu🇿🇦 (@LinxoZulu) March 8, 2017
WATCH!
https://twitter.com/Solomon_Madube/status/839113467076440066
3.When Mbuyiseni Ndlozi gave her a tongue lash….
https://twitter.com/rubygana/status/839029135242584064
#SCOPA
ANC Ministers and lack of accountability pic.twitter.com/sQ9kWZXapo— Tumi Sole (@tumisole) March 7, 2017
The minister assured beneficiaries that their grants will be paid from April 1‚ after months of uncertainty around the social grant distribution agency.
WATCH!
The Hon. Minister, Bathabile Dlamini, wishing this sitting came with a shot of something strong. #SCOPA pic.twitter.com/Q6fVhnGIgp
— Luyanda Mfeka (@Lu_Mfeka) March 7, 2017
The contract of the current agent‚ Cash Paymaster Services (CPS)‚ expires at the end of this month. But Dlamini’s department has struggled to explain who will take over‚ given that CPS’s previous contract was declared irregular by the Constitutional Court.
Also read: Social grants to increase in April
