SASSA mulling Post Office's response to grants offer
26 October 2017
Cape Town – The South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) says it is mulling over the South African Post Office's response to its offer to assist the agency with the social grants scheme.
Parliament heard on Tuesday that SASSA finally made an offer to the Post Office on October 18, but only to assist with one of the four services that were put out to tender.
The Post Office replied on October 20 in a letter, which News24 has seen, that it would not make sense to separate the Post Office's core banking functions, which comprise the three other services it was not granted in the tender.
It would thus revert to an original offer – made to it by former SASSA CEO Thokozani Magwaza in July – if an agreement on those three other services could not be reached. The details of the July offer were not made public.