Factional fights within ANC now playing out in State - Analyst
Political analyst Karima Brown believes social development minister Bathabile Dlamini should be fired.
It comes amid the latest development in the Sassa payment crisis.
Social Development director general Zane Dangor has resigned from the department.
It's reportedly due to disagreements with management on the process of paying social grants on 1 April.
Brown says the resignation indicates the fight by Zuma allies with Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan has entered government work.
"The factional fights in the ANC is now playing itself out in the State with 17million South Africans' lives at risk," Brown says.
She believes Dlamini together with the South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) sat on their hands, failing to devise a plan to ensure the payment of social grants on 1 April.
"They failed to work on a plan to ensure they get the grants in accordance with the stipulations of the highest court in the land," Brown says. "Treasury is now having to defend and insist on a legal process which will allow government to disperse these monies."
Brown insists Dlamini was intending to use Cash Payment Services (CPS) to issue the social grants all along.