Dlamini files affidavit on why she should not personally pay for SASSA case
15 December 2017
Johannesburg – Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini has submitted an affidavit to the Constitutional Court to explain why she should not be made to personally pay the legal costs of the SASSA social grants court case.
She said she had never considered the workstreams, which she put together to help with social grants, to be a "parallel" process to the South Africa Social Security Agency (SASSA).
"At no stage did I regard the workstream as a parallel process to that of SASSA as I knew that [it] had taken steps to meet the March 31, 2017 deadline," Dlamini said in her papers filed to the court.
Dlamini gave reasons why she did not inform the court of her workstreams in her affidavit of March 31.