Social grant payment agency Sassa will appeal a High Court order granting service provider Net1 permission to continue making deductions from beneficiaries' accounts, it said on Thursday. It wanted deductions and debit orders to continue being made from social grant beneficiaries' bank accounts. Exploitative practicesThe judgment involved four court cases between Net 1 Applied Technologies (Pty) Ltd against Sassa, the social development department, and others. Van der Westhuizen also ordered that the first three respondents - Magwaza, Sassa, and Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini - pay costs. In a statement released on Thursday, Sassa said the deductions made by Net1's subsidiary CPS were working against government's programme of fighting poverty.

Source: The North Africa Journal May 11, 2017 13:52 UTC