Dlamini covering up impending social grant distribution crisis
17 November 2016
The Minister of Social Development, Bathabile Dlamini, refuses to provide concrete answers on her department’s readiness to take over the distribution of social grants to 17 million South Africans come 1 April next year.
In reply to a DA parliamentary question about the plans to ensure a smooth and effective transition, Minister Dlamini failed to once again take South Africa into her confidence and ensure transparency around what could be a monumental crisis for millions of poor South Africans next year.
This latest unsatisfactory response further reinforces the perception, and the DA’s suspicion, that they cannot answer these questions because the department is not ready to take over the function of distributing social grants to the 17 million poor and vulnerable that are directly reliant on them.
This, despite repeated assurances from the department that they are ready to take over this massive task.