The former minister of social development is alleged to have lied under oath

The court has given Cash Paymaster Services 15 days to provide all documents that will allow the treasury to calculate the sum it needs to refund the social security agency

The social security agency says it will not extend the December deadline to switch to the new Sassa cards

The ConCourt has ruled that former social development minister Bathabile Dlamini was not negligent by extending the CPS contract last year

The social development minister is following in the footsteps of her predecessor

In May last year the high court ruled that CPS could continue to deduct money for airtime, loans and electricity from social grant beneficiaries

Sapo chief executive Mark Barnes says the entity could not afford the 12% wage hike

Social development minister says the transition from CPS to Sapo will closely involve all beneficiaries

For now, Cash Paymaster Services is prepared to charge Sassa R45 to pay social grants in cash, rather than its initial pitch of R66.70 per beneficiary

Social development minister promises Sassa grants will continue to be paid and that their obligations to the Constitutional Court will be met

The minister needs more time to appoint an evaluating team that is better equipped to judge tender proposals

Sassa has assured MPs that all grants will be paid from April 1

Sassa paid CPS after the company claimed it had enrolled more grant recipients and beneficiaries than it had been contracted to provides services for.

Social security staff are in a tizz, fretting that no backup plan is in place to pay grants come April 1

With less than a month to transfer core components of the scheme to CPS, Sassa has to answer how it will deliver cash-based social grants

Roughly 2.8-million beneficiaries will not get their grant payments if the contract with CPS is not extended, the agency argued in court papers.

A panel of experts expects Sassa to renege on its Constitutional mandate to pay grants to over 10-million recipients.

CPS argues no party during the court process suggested that it should be barred from participating in any future tenders in regards to grant payment.

A panel wants the treasury to take over paying social grants as the agency can’t get its act together

As on Monday and Tuesday, Dlamini continued to insist on providing what she deemed important context, but seemed mostly to be irrelevant detail