An Improved Smartcard for the South African Social Security Agency (SASSA): A Proof of Life Based Solution

Public institutions, such as the South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) increasingly function in multi-project environments to translate strategies successfully into service-delivery initiatives. However, this ‘projectification’ often causes projects to be designed and executed haphazardly. This can lead to budget and schedule overruns, and the general wastage of an organisation’s resources. Project failures often occur where organisations do not ensure that specific projects are aligned with their core strategies. The purpose of this article is to combine the theories and principles of organisation, management, strategic management, and project management in an effort to pinpoint core determinants that can help establish the extent to which an organisation manages the alignment of its strategic projects. In the present study, the author applied the principles of interdisciplinarity, systems thinking, and organisational integration. The combined core determinants that were uncovered were then used in an empirical investigation of SASSA. The purpose of this investigation is to identify particular challenges the organisation faces in aligning their strategies and projects successfully. Thereafter, a number of recommendations follow to address these challenges.

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South Africa's ANC could alienate poorer voters

Emerald Expert Briefings ◽

10.1108/oxan-db218587 ◽

2017 ◽

Keyword(s):

Social Security ◽

Social Development ◽

South African ◽

New Deal ◽

The South ◽

Social Unrest ◽

Content Type ◽

Social Security Agency

Significance The current contract is due to expire on March 31, with no replacement in place. Minister of Social Development Bathabile Dlamini and the South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) wish to sign a new deal with current provider Cash Paymaster Services (CPS), but they will need approval from both the National Treasury and the Court after a previous contract with CPS was deemed unconstitutional. Impacts A delay in grant payments could spark widespread popular protests and social unrest. Divisions between National Treasury and the executive will widen ahead of the ANC's June policy conference. Dlamini is unlikely to be sacked outright but may be moved to another ministerial post in a cabinet reshuffle.

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Social Security and Social Development in South Africa

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780192894199.013.38 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 868-888

Author(s):

Leila Patel

Keyword(s):

South Africa ◽

Social Security ◽

Social Development ◽

South African ◽

Social Protection ◽

Inclusive Development ◽

Welfare Regime ◽

The South ◽

Poverty And Inequality ◽

The Social

Abstract: South Africa has made significant strides in growing its social security and social development system to reduce poverty and inequality since the advent of democracy in 1994. The country’s rights-based and redistributive social protection system builds on earlier social policies and was substantively refashioned to address the country’s colonial and apartheid legacy. This chapter documents the South African case with reference to the following themes: first, it sets out the social and economic challenges facing the country in relation to poverty and inequality. Second, it demonstrates the conceptual and policy significance of the South African case in relation to the rise of social protection policies to promote inclusive development in countries in the Global South. The South African welfare regime is the third theme. It focuses on the evolution of social security and social development, discusses the features of the approach, the nature and scope of social protection policies and their impacts. Finally, the chapter concludes by considering the policy issues and future trajectory of social protection in South Africa.

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REFORMING THE SOUTH AFRICAN SOCIAL SECURITY ADJUDICATION SYSTEM: INNOVATIVE EXPERIENCES FROM SOUTH AFRICAN NON-SOCIAL SECURITY JURISDICTIONS

Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal/Potchefstroomse Elektroniese Regsblad ◽

10.17159/1727-3781/2016/v19i0a1349 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 19 ◽

pp. 1

Author(s):

Mathias Ashu Tako Nyenti

Keyword(s):

Social Security ◽

Dispute Resolution ◽

South African ◽

Access To Justice ◽

Constitutional Rights ◽

The South ◽

Labour Relations ◽

Resolution System ◽

Dispute Resolution System ◽

Limited Scope

There is currently no uniform social security dispute resolution system in South Africa due to the piecemeal fashion in which schemes were established or protection against individual risks regulated. The result is that each statute provides for its own dispute resolution institution(s) and processes. There are also various gaps and challenges in the current social security dispute resolution systems, some of these relating to the uncoordinated and fragmented nature of the system; inaccessibility of some social security institutions; inappropriateness of some current appeal institutions; the lack of a systematic approach in establishing appeal institutions; a limited scope of jurisdiction and powers of adjudication institutions; inconsistencies in review and/or appeal provisions in various laws; an unavailability of alternative dispute resolution procedures; and an absence of institutional independence of adjudication institutions or forums. The system is therefore in need of reform. In developing an appropriate system, much can be learned from innovative experiences in comparative South African non-social security jurisdictions on the establishment of effective and efficient dispute resolution frameworks. Dispute resolution systems in the labour relations, business competition regulation and consumer protection jurisdictions have been established to realise the constitutional rights of their users (especially the rights of access to justice, to a fair trial and to just administrative action). They thus provide a benchmark for the development of the South African social security dispute resolution system.

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Dewesternising the South African social security law: a leap towards an Afrocentric legal curricular

De Jure ◽

10.17159/2225-7160/2021/v54a14 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 54 ◽

Author(s):

Shelton Tapiwa Mota Makore ◽

Nombulelo Lubisi

Keyword(s):

South Africa ◽

Social Security ◽

Indigenous Knowledge ◽

South African ◽

Third World ◽

Legal Education ◽

Knowledge Systems ◽

The South ◽

Indigenous Knowledge Systems

SUMMARY Recent calls to dewesternise the curricular are especially pertinent to the teaching of Social Security Law in South Africa, which has traditionally been dominated by the Eurocentric canon. This article argues that South African Social Security Law is a western-centric phenomenon and dewesternising it is necessary for the decolonisation of legal education. On this score, it provides a critique of the South African Social Security Law in search of pragmatic ideas that can advance the project of decolonising it and creating Third World perspectives. The article unsettles the dominant Eurocentric model on the origin of South Africa Social Security Law which marginalise the role that indigenous knowledge play in the development of this area of law. It argues that placing indigenous knowledge systems on the epicentre of the historiography of teaching South African Social Security Law will lead to some epistemic disruption of the current historic paradigm, a project necessary for the decolonisation of the legal mind and intellectual landscape. The article re-contextualising the orthodox social security theory in the historical scene of colonial and post-era; constructing alternative social security historiography; offering an Africanised dialogue on the origins of the informal strands of social security law; the elaboration of alternative methodologies of actualising the constitutionally protected right to have access to social security. The paper also contends with concepts and ideas such as the deemed trans-colonial importation of social security origins, decolonial philosophy as an epoch of transforming legal education in the context of South African Social Security Law.

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ACCESS TO SOCIAL SECURITY FOR NON-CITIZENS: AN INTERNATIONAL, SOUTH AFRICAN AND EUROPEAN VIEW

Pretoria Student Law Review ◽

10.29053/pslr.v5i.2144 ◽

2011 ◽

Author(s):

Taryn Lee Vos

Keyword(s):

South Africa ◽

Social Security ◽

South African ◽

Political Stability ◽

Constitutional Court ◽

The South ◽

Foreign Nationals ◽

European Approach ◽

The Republic ◽

The Right

South Africa has become a magnet to a larger group of foreign migrants than the global average. This is due to the fact that it is a front-runner, economically speaking, in Sub-Sahara Africa with a reputation of political stability. The South African Constitution is the supreme law of the Republic, to which all other law is subject. South Africa’s constitutional framework, coupled with immigration legislation and policies, aim to promote the rights enshrined in the Bill of Rights for all individuals living within the borders of the Republic. While certain rights are expressly reserved for citizens only and are largely of a civil or political nature, the remaining rights are those that ‘everyone’, including foreign nationals, may enjoy. Non-citizens within the borders of the Republic receive, inter alia, the protection of South Africa’s basic constitutional values; in particular the right to equality, human dignity and freedom. Socio-economic rights, subject to the limitations clause in section 36 of the Constitution, are also made available to everyone. This includes both citizens and foreign nationals. These rights can be found in section 25, 26, 27, 28 and 29 of the Constitution and relate to issues of access to land, housing, health care, food, social security and education. The focus of this paper will be the right of access to social security for non-citizens, particularly migrants, in South Africa. Who falls within the scope of the term ‘everyone’ as found in section 27 of the Constitution? The international perspective on the issue of social exclusion of non-citizens from accessing social security benefits is briefly dealt with, followed by a discussion of the South African perspective on the matter. The approach of the South African Constitutional Court in respect of the protection of the rights of noncitizens will then be discussed. The European approach to the matter, including the approach of European courts, will then be examined. The concluding paragraphs entail an evaluation of the improvements that can be made to the South African social security system as inspired by the European approach.

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The Compliance of the South African Social Security System with the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

Obiter ◽

10.17159/obiter.v41i4.10491 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 41 (4) ◽

pp. 850-870

Author(s):

Yvette Basson

Keyword(s):

South Africa ◽

Social Security ◽

South African ◽

Social Security System ◽

Security System ◽

The South ◽

Cultural Rights ◽

The Right

The ratification of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights by South Africa has resulted in the provisions thereof becoming binding on the South African legislature. The right to social security is entrenched in the ICESCR, which provides for the elements of a social security system that must be complied with by states. This article sets out what is required of states in terms of the right to social security in the ICESCR by way of crystallising the elements of a social security system. Thereafter, the South Africa social security system is compared to these elements to determine whether there is compliance with the right to social security in the ICESCR.

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