Cape Town - Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini said on Friday that she did in fact meet a deadline to submit an affidavit to the Constitutional Court on personal costs in the social grants case. This after reports that she had missed the 16:00 deadline.
Her attorneys served the 140-page affidavit before 16:00 as per the order but had some difficulties emailing it because of its large file size, said Dlamini's spokesperson Lumka Oliphant.
"Twenty-six copies of the same had to be hand delivered so as to be filed at court. The court could not accept the filing without confirmation of the electronic service," she said.
"Unfortunately due to the large size of the file some of the electronic service bounced back and all parties could not be served before 16:00. The electronic service has now been effected to all the parties."
Oliphant said that the court was copied in on the email.
The attorneys would make a condonation application on Monday in this regard.