Despite several assurances from Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini there being 17 million South Africans dependent on government for social welfare grants and their pensions, the beleaguered minister has denied reports that a new contract has been reached to pay grants come April 1.
As things stand, there is no deal in place with any service provider to pay social grants.
On Tuesday, appearing before Parliament’s standing committee on public accounts (Scopa), Dlamini said certain aspects of the four terms of the contract still needed to be ironed out before a new deal could be reached with Cash Paymaster Services (CPS).
CPS has already said that there is a deal and it will be taking care of payments for at least another two years.
Here’s what we don’t know about the negotiated deal with CPS thus far:
Here’s what we do know:
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