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FILE: Lindiwe Sisulu. Picture: @The_DHS/Twitter.

Susan shabangu

‘She has more experience than you’: Sisulu defends Susan Shabangu’s appointment

By Gaye Davis

DA MP Emma Powell questioned Susan Shabangu’s credentials as a water expert, prompting an angry response from Lindiwe Sisulu.

  • Former sports and recreation minister Tokozile Xasa. Picture: GCIS

    Tokozile Xasa joins list of former ministers as she resigns from Parliament

    Her resignation follows those of Nomaindia Mfeketo, Dipuo Letsatsi-Duba and Susan Shabangu.

    1160 days ago
  • FILE: Former Cabinet minister and ANC MP Susan Shabangu. Picture: GCIS

    Former minister Susan Shabangu resigns from Parliament

    Susan Shabangu served as minister of social development and minister for women in the Presidency.

    1161 days ago
  • Bathabile Dlamini being interviewed by journalists at Loftus Versfeld Stadium ahead of the inauguration of Cyril Ramaphosa as the sixth democratically elected president on 25 May 2019. Picture: Abigail Javier/EWN

    Dlamini, Masutha don't make cut, Radebe ends run as longest-serving minister

    President Cyril Ramaphosa has reduced his Cabinet and there are eight ministers who did not make the cut.

    1168 days ago
  • Government held a media briefing on the outcomes of the 2-day summit on gender-based violence in Centurion on Friday, 2 November 2018. Picture: Sethembiso Zulu/EWN

    [WATCH] Shabangu: There's no space for failure on abuse

    Government held a media briefing on the outcomes of the two-day summit on gender-based violence in Centurion.

    1374 days ago
  • Minister of Telecommunications and Postal Services Siyabonga Cwele. Picture: Christa Eybers/EWN

    Cwele: Govt working to urgently improve Post Office infrastructure

    Minister Siyabonga Cwele says work is continuously being done to ensure the Post Office fully takes over the payment of social grants as ordered by the ConCourt.

    1440 days ago
  • Social Development Minister Susan Shabangu (centre) addressing the media on the progress her department is making in taking over the payment of social grants. Picture: Thando Kubheka/EWN.

    Social Development ‘making great progress in phasing in Post Office’

    The Constitutional Court has given Sassa until the end of September to terminate its invalid contract with Cash Paymaster Services.

    1440 days ago
  • FILE: Social Development Minister Susan Shabangu. Picture: GCIS

    Minister Shabangu committed to cleaning up social grants debacle

    The minister says she won’t be drawn into a blame game over the grants debacle that started under Bathabile Dlamini's leadership.

    1457 days ago
  • FILE: Social Development Minister Susan Shabangu. Picture: GCIS.

    Minister Shabangu berates Sassa officials

    Social Development Minister Susan Shabangu has gone as far as to say they are colluding with CPS to coax beneficiaries into signing up for new bank accounts.

    1457 days ago
  • FILE: Social Development Minister Susan Shabangu. Picture: GCIS

    PSA to proceed with urgent court application against Susan Shabangu

    The PSA says Sassa has failed to table any counteroffer to its demand of a wage hike of between 13 and 15%.

    1483 days ago
  • FILE: South African Social Security Agency employees picket outside the headquarters in Pretoria. Picture: Kayleen Morgan/EWN.

    Striking Sassa employees expected back at work today

    Workers affiliated to the Public Servants Association (PSA) have been protesting for several weeks demanding higher salaries.

    1498 days ago
  • FILE: South African Social Security Agency employees picket outside the headquarters in Pretoria. Picture: Kayleen Morgan/EWN

    PSA says members not responsible for grant payment issues

    The Public Servants Association's Ta'hir Maepa says the strike over wages has nothing to do with the payment of social grants.

    1498 days ago
  • FILE: South African Social Security Agency employees picket outside the headquarters in Pretoria. Picture: Kayleen Morgan/EWN.

    Court to rule on urgent application to halt Sassa strike

    Social Development Minister Susan Shabangu approached the court arguing that the strike will impact Sassa's capacity to administer the payment of grants.

    1499 days ago
  • FILE: Social Development Minister Susan Shabangu. Picture: EWN.

    Court bid to stop strike by Sassa employees postponed

    Legal counsel representing Social Development Minister Susan Shabangu has argued that should the employees continue their work stoppage, it will affect Sassa’s constitutional obligation.

    1499 days ago
  • FILE: South African Social Security Agency employees picket outside the headquarters in Pretoria. Picture: Kayleen Morgan/EWN

    Sassa strike puts grant payments at risk, court told

    Social Development Minister Susan Shabangu’s lawyers have told the court Sassa and the minister should be granted the urgent interdict because its capacity to distribute social grants is being put at risk.

    1499 days ago
  • Picture: Sethembiso Zulu/EWN.

    Social grants: Sassa to make R541m advance payment to Post Office

    In an affidavit filed with the Constitutional Court, Social Development Minister Susan Shabangu says the money will be recouped over four years.

    1499 days ago
  • FILE: Social Development Minister Susan Shabangu. Picture: GCIS

    Susan Shabangu changing tack on social grant payments

    The Social Development Minister says she wants to reduce the number of cash beneficiaries before the court’s 31 August deadline to end the contract with Cash Paymaster Services.

    1531 days ago
  • FILE: Social Development Minister Susan Shabangu. Picture: GCIS.

    Shabangu vows to deal with challenges at Sassa

    Minister Susan Shabangu says she’s served in the portfolio for less than a hundred days and should not yet be judged on her performance.

    1541 days ago
  • A Sassa card. Picture: Supplied

    Sassa cancels tender for cash payment provider

    The agency has decided to completely cancel the tender which it had earlier put on hold to review the process in the wake of a legal challenge.

    1541 days ago
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