SASSA, Post Office agreement date pushed back again to November 17
8 November 2017
Cape Town – The striking of the elusive deal between the South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) and the South African Post Office (SAPO) has been pushed back yet again.
MPs at a joint meeting in Parliament on Tuesday heard that an offer to the Post Office to build an integrated IT payment system for a new "hybrid" social grants scheme would be fast-tracked.
However, the project plan and details of the agreement will now be negotiated and drafted by an "intervention team" chaired by director-general of the Department of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation, Nompumelelo Mpofu.
Crucially, no mention was made of the other three services required by the hybrid system: banking services, production of new cards and cash distribution of grants.