Hon Chair, this matter is related to what I responded to in the previous question, which was also sneaked in where a window was broken.
This is a matter where the current service providers - in fact, two of them are acting outside the agreement that was made with them. In other words, what I am saying is that this was not stated in the current contracts with those service providers. The contracts, which were signed by provinces before Sassa's existence, state that there will be payment to beneficiaries in certain manners.
Recently, there has been movement towards using what they call "the merchants". The merchants are these shopkeepers and shops. This practice is mainly prevalent in KwaZulu-Natal. There are notices at the shops. In some of these merchants' places the notices state that any beneficiary who receives payment there must spend 10% of what they receive.
We are dealing with this matter. It may not quite be a corruption matter in the sense of the corruption we were talking about in the previous question, but this is a kind of artistic manipulation by the service provider. So, we are dealing with this. This is actually a matter of acting outside the contract that we have with the people. We are acting on these issues. Thank you very much.
Audit of all informal settlements and timeframes for audit
57. Mr D V Bloem (Cope) asked the Minister of Human Settlements:
Whether, with reference to the President's visit to Sweetwater informal settlement, his department is conducting an audit of all informal settlements; if not, why not; if so (a) how is this being done and (b) within which timeframe? CO280E