SASSA asks ConCourt to extend CPS contract
The Social Security Agency of South Africa has asked the Constitutional Court to allow it to extend its contract with Cash Paymaster Services - to make sure social grants are paid out on the 1st of April.
Advocate Andrew Breitenbach has been making submissions on behalf of SASSA in the Concourt, and read from a letter to Treasury.
Budlender has been arguing for NGO Black Sash in its Constitutional Court application - on the looming crisis in the payment of monthly social grants - from the first of April.
This CPS contract was declared invalid by the Constitutional Court in 2014, and will come to an end on 31 March 2017.
"This has been - and it remains - a painful episode in our national life. And we have to face it that the executive has simply failed to carry out its duties," he said.