Dear Portfolio Committee on Social Development,
Dear Ma`am

This is the clause in chapter 20 of
Social Security Act which I referred
to.
The
Social Assistance Act states that a
grant cannot be
“transferred, ceded, pledged or in
any other way
encumbered or disposed of”.


By all probabilities this paragraph
violates my human rights as it my Chapter 9 rights
pertaining to
Equality
9. (1) Everyone is equal before the law
and has the right to equal protection and benefit of
the law.
(2) Equality includes the full and
equal enjoyment of all rights and freedoms. To
promote the achievement of equality,
legislative and other measures designed
Chapter 2: Bill of Rights
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to protect or advance persons, or
categories of persons, disadvantaged by unfair
discrimination may be taken.
(3) The state may not unfairly
discriminate directly or indirectly against anyone on one
or more grounds, including race,
gender, sex, pregnancy, marital status, ethnic or
social origin, colour, sexual
orientation, age, disability, religion, conscience, belief,
culture, language and birth.
(4) No person may unfairly discriminate
directly or indirectly against anyone on one or
more grounds in terms of subsection
(3). National legislation must be enacted to
prevent or prohibit unfair
discrimination.
(5) Discrimination on one or more of
the grounds listed in subsection (3) is unfair unless
it is established that the
discrimination is fair.

Regards
signed
tms