Net1’s social grant distribution subsidiary, Cash Paymaster Services, continues to be coy about the amount it would be remunerated under a new contract with the South African Social Security Agency, telling the constitutional
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There is now a strong possibility that the South African Social Security Agency will be weaned off its dependence on one operator which is able to dictate terms by virtue of a “closed-loop” system. This follows the news that the interministerial task team led
The crisis swirling around South Africa’s system of welfare payments to the poorest third of its people has become a game of chicken. Social development minister Bathabile Dlamini insists that Net1 UEPS Technologies
One of the ANC’s signature programmes, a welfare system for the poorest third of South Africa’s people, is in chaos. The monthly stipends are distributed to more than 17m people by Net1 UEPS Technologies, whose
South African welfare minister Bathabile Dlamini denied she was responsible for failing to ensure plans are in place to dispense welfare grants to more than 17m people when an existing disbursement contract with Net1
South Africa plans to bring in a new welfare payments system over the next two years and hasn’t yet signed a new interim contract with Net1 UEPS Technologies, the government said on Sunday. Cash Paymaster Services, a unit of Net1, will
The head of South Africa’s welfare agency defended his decision to initiate talks with the Post Office as a contingency plan in case a contract to distribute grants with Cash Paymaster Services, a unit of Net1
The dispute over South Africa’s social grant system and threatening millions of vulnerable beneficiaries with non-payment creates risks that go far beyond interrupting poor people’s access to desperately needed grants. The failure of the South African
The CEO of Net1 UEPS Technologies said a failure to extend its contract to distribute South African welfare payments beyond the end of March would be a “national disaster”, and offered to sell the business to the government. While the South African Social
Social development minister Bathabile Dlamini is soon to make an announcement about the payment of social grants by the South African Social Security Agency amid fears of a disaster when the