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
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National treasury will not act illegally and approve a new welfare distribution deal with Net1 UEPS Technologies unless it has been sanctioned by the country’s constitutional court, the spokesman for the country’s ruling party said
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
President Jacob Zuma ordered the country’s social development and finance ministers to ensure that welfare payments are made to beneficiaries on 1 April, the day after a distribution contract with Net1 UEPS Technologies is due to expire. Zuma held talks
Social development minister Bathabile Dlamini said she took responsibility for the failure of the country’s welfare department to comply with a ruling by the nation’s top court. The constitutional court in 2013 said a contract between the
South Africa’s welfare agency said it withdrew its application to the nation’s highest court to extend a payment distribution contract with Net1 UEPS Technologies the day after it filed it. That’s added to
Government is facing a legal demand that a planned renewal of a welfare distribution contract with Net1 UEPS Technologies should be supervised by South Africa’s top court after the state failed
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
Finance minister Pravin Gordhan has told his cabinet colleague in charge of welfare that her plan to extend a contract with a unit of Net1 UEPS Technologies would be “unlawful”, a letter