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Dear Cape Town The Democratic Alliance (DA) has been reliably informed that the Social Security Agency of South Africa (SASSA) has repeatedly failed to utilize venues offered to them by the City of Cape Town to help with the easing of queues and congestion at SASSA offices. As of Friday, 12 February 2021, SASSA still …
Dear Cape Town The Democratic Alliance (DA) is shocked that the Minister of Social Development, Lindiwe Zulu, avoided answering our questions in a Social Development Portfolio Committee meeting by hiding behind a baseless allegation. The Minister – who was meant to answer critical questions such as SASSA’s lack of capacity, the lack of doctors to …
Dear Cape Town The Democratic Alliance (DA) welcomes the decision by the Chairperson of the Social Development Portfolio Committee, Mondli Gungubele, to schedule a briefing by the Department of Social Development (DSD) and its entities regarding temporary disability grants. This comes after two requests from the DA for an urgent meeting in light of the …
Dear Cape Town The Democratic Alliance (DA) has written a follow-up letter to Mondli Gungubele, the Chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Social Development requesting that the Minister of Social Development (DSD) Lindiwe Zulu, be brought before Parliament in order to account for her Department’s mishandling of the temporary disability grant crisis. While South Africa …
Dear Cape Town The Democratic Alliance (DA) will write to the Chair of the Portfolio Committee on Social Development, Mondli Gungubele, to urgently request a meeting to deal with the looming disability grant crisis, where the Minister of Social Development, Lindiwe Zulu, must account for how her Department intends to handle the disability grant crisis, …
Dear Cape Town The Democratic Alliance (DA) has learnt that thousands of disability grant beneficiaries across the country have been failed by the ANC-led government’s lack of planning and might not receive their grant this month as a result. Per the policy of the South African Social Service Agency (SASSA), the beneficiaries of disability grants …
