On failing us

erty within the constitutional legislative framework”.

Surely it is a crisis when an organisation cannot perform the function for which it was created?

And yet: “There is no crisis,” Dlamini intoned in Parliament this week. The real tragedy is not that we are beholden to public officials so obsessed with their own political survival that they see nothing beyond themselves. The real tragedy here is that social grants, which are meant to advance the most vulnerable in our society, are being used like a toy in the hands of the most powerful.

Chief Justice Mogeong Mogeong slammed the ineptitude of Dlamini, her department and Sassa this week.

The unravelling of the state was not contained there. The parliamentary ad hoc committee set up to probe the