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proper tender processes.

From October 2015, Sassa began to develop a plan to take over grant payments but realised by April 2016 that it didn’t have the capacity to do so. At the eleventh hour, a tender process was launched in December 2016 and closed in January 2017. Dlamini, in her affidavit that explained to the court why she should not be held personally responsible for the Sassa crisis, said there were “ultimately no compliant bids”.

Most of the big four banks, which

Picture: AFP Britain’s Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, watches as his wife, Queen Elizabeth, feeds an elephant named Donna after opening the new Centre for Elephant Care in Whipsnade, north of London, yesterday.