DA succeeds in calling DSD and SASSA to account to Parliament
22 November 2016
The DA has succeeded in getting the Department of Social Development and SASSA summoned to Parliament’s Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA), to account for R1 billion in irregular expenditure which could have been used to provide much needed support to poor and vulnerable South Africans.
Both SASSA and the Department will appear before SCOPA tomorrow, 23 November 2016.
After months of raising issues with SASSA and the Department of Social Development’s ineptness to deal with a potential social crisis, we welcome this meeting and will use this opportunity to hold both to account by questioning them on the following:
- R316 million paid to CPS at the mere presentation of an invoice;