SASSA feedback still lacks 'significant details' - Black Sash
22 November 2017
Cape Town – Black Sash has welcomed Cabinet's intervention in delivering a preliminary agreement between the South African Post Office and the South African Social Security Agency (SASSA), but says the report back on the arrangement still lacks crucial details.
The inter-ministerial committee (IMC) on social security announced in Parliament on Tuesday that an overarching implementation protocol between the two entities was agreed to over the last 10 days.
The protocol finally gives the Post Office the chance to prove its capacity in providing core banking functions and producing new SASSA cards, previously denied to it by SASSA's bid adjudicating committee.
However Black Sash, the NGO that has led the charge in keeping SASSA accountable to the Constitutional Court, believes the protocol still leaves too many doors open for outside influence.