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

Moneyline claims that the South African Social Security Agency has moved beneficiaries to the South African Post Office against their will

The Constitutional Court has ruled that Bathabile Dlamini is personally liable for 20% of costs of last year’s Sassa debacle

The process of setting up the new body to help safeguard our democracy has met with obstacles

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

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.

The airtime deal is hiding in a complex web involving controversial new majority shareholders Blue Label Telecoms and Net1

But there is still hope for a precedent that will keep companies honest

From this Wednesday, the company will pay him a salary of some R660 000 per month to work for at most a half-day for up to two more years

For years Net1 had been criticised about its financial dealings with grant recipients, such as selling them life insurance.

Over the past five years it has recorded a pre-tax profit of R1.1-billion, Cash Paymaster Services has told the ConCourt.

Cash Paymaster Services is on its own after the social grant agency withdrew from the case

The company gets the go-ahead to debit the accounts of social grant beneficiaries.

Magda Wierzycka might be the richest woman in SA but she hasn’t lost sight of those with very little

Grant recipients are often at a loss about who they are dealing with, which makes them vulnerable