Bathabile Dlamini, stop milking state coffers at expense of most vulnerable – OUTA
OUTA condemns Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini’s ongoing manipulation of the needs of the poorest of the poor to suit her own agenda.
OUTA condemns Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini’s ongoing manipulation of the needs of the poorest of the poor to suit her own agenda.
Net1 says Cash Paymaster Services will make payments to 10.5 million eligible grant recipients on the 1st April.
South Africa’s Constitutional Court ordered the nation’s welfare agency to extend Net1 UEPS Technologies contract to distribute grants to more than 17 million beneficiaries for a year to avoid a “potential catastrophe” and slammed the government’s handling of the matter.
South African Welfare Minister Bathabile Dlamini denied she was responsible for failing to ensure plans are in place to dispense welfare grants to more than 17 million people when an existing disbursement contract with Net 1 UEPS Technologies ends on March 31.
South Africa’s finance minister told his cabinet colleague in charge of welfare that her plan to extend a contract with a unit of Net1 UEPS Technologies Inc. would be “unlawful”.