Black Sash on Monday said it is
concerned about the continued erosion of government social grants by illegal
business practices of the South African Social Services Agency contractors,
Cash Paymaster Services.
It is alleged that micro lending
industry are debiting bank accounts of grant beneficiaries.
Meanwhile Social Development
Minister, Bathabile Dlamini said she is considering legal action against CPS .
Black Sash Spokesperson, Elroy
Paulus said that this is the first public acknowledgement by government that things
are seriously wrong.
Paulus added that government is
aware of the desperate calls to the Black Sash plan, to the legal resources
center to community advice offices across South
Africa and of the
evidence submitted to our community monitors through the community monitoring
and advocacy program.
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