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South African Court Averts Welfare Payments Crisis

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One in three South Africans depends on the social grants South Africa’s constitutional court has averted a crisis on welfare payments to 17 million people by extending the contract of the processing company by one year. The court had ruled in 2014 that Cash Paymaster Services (CPS) was awarded the contract unlawfully. The state had … Read more

S.Africa Judge Slams ‘incompetence’ In Welfare Pay Crisis

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More than 17 million of the poorest South Africans could lose their welfare payments within weeks in a government dispute that the country’s top judge said Wednesday displayed “absolute incompetence”. The system of distributing money to nearly one third of the population is close to collapse after the Social Security Agency (SASSA) failed in its … Read more