CALS welcomes Constitutional Court judgment on social grants, 17 Mar 2017

The Centre for Applied Legal Studies (CALS) at Wits University welcomes today’s triumphant and historic judgment by the Constitutional Court. CALS represented the Black Sash Trust in launching this case against the Minister of Social Development, the South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) and Cash Paymaster Services (CPS) in an effort to ensure that the social grant system and its beneficiaries are protected... Today’s judgment granted all the relief we sought...[and was] a victory for the 17 million grant beneficiaries. 

The Court ordered that:

• CPS has a constitutional obligation to continue to pay grants for another 12 months without raising its fees;...
• Grant beneficiaries’ personal data should be protected;...