The story of the troubled contracting out of the South African Social Security Agency (SASSA)

Marianne Thamm of the Daily Maverick tells the story of the troubled contracting out of the South African Social Security Agency (SASSA). “The twist in our tale is that these profits were made off the backs of the most vulnerable in South Africa, those who depend on social grants to stay alive. (…) Cash Paymaster Services has had an enchanted run in spite of ConCourt rulings against it. The company’s illegal tender to pay social grants was extended three times to avert Sassa and Dlamini’s ‘self-generated’ national catastrophe in April 2017, when the contract was meant to come to an end.”