Scopa to call Gordhan to appear over Sassa crisis
7 March 2017
Cape Town - Parliament's standing committee on public accounts (Scopa) will call Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan to appear before it next week to discuss the social grants crisis.
Committee chairperson Themba Godi told eNCA in a live crossing that Gordhan would be called, following Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini's appearance on Tuesday.
Godi confirmed to News24 afterward that Scopa would ask Gordhan to appear on Tuesday, March 14.
The social development department and the South African Social Security Agency have until March 31 to ensure the social grants scheme operation is not in contravention of the Constitutional Court, after the court directed it in 2014 to take over the scheme.