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The alleged brazenness that spawns Sassa's corrupt contracts highlights the sordid systems that, this month, resulted in 600 000 old-age grant recipients receiving their monthly R2 080 up to a week past the due date, writes Khaya Koko.
In December 2020 – when the Covid-19 pandemic accentuated the need for social security – South Africa's grants agency awarded a R45.6 million three-year contract to a company in which a brother-in-law partook in adjudicating the bidding process.
The three-year contract to maintain the South African Social Security Agency's (Sassa) Eastern Cape properties is part of five corruption probes President Cyril Ramaphosa authorised the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) to look into in July last year.
