The ANC have slated the DA for using\u00a0“swart gevaar” tactics to instigate issues around the social grants crisis according to party spokesperson\u00a0Pholisa Makeleni.<\/p>\n
“We must raise sharply our disappointment with the DA\u2019s unscrupulousness. Up until now there are no grant recipients who have not been paid,” said Makeleni.<\/p>\n
“They want to paint the ANC government with all sorts of things which have not happened. They are waging \u201cswart gevaar\u201d (black danger) tactics. The DA will not survive!”<\/p>\n
Makeleni further called the DA hypocrites for not promoting a\u00a0universal franchise social security grant and for their policies of “discriminatory” work and\u00a0targeted social assistance system.<\/p>\n
She did however reiterate the party’s current concerns at Sassa but noted that the ANC had inherited a fragmented and discriminatory social grants system from the apartheid government in 1994.<\/p>\n
“I want to give the historical context in which the social security system existed in SA pre 1994, as it was summarised by the Lund Committee in which it found that there were problems with access to grants, like:<\/p>\n
“And the amounts payable were disproportional and Blacks receiving much less than their White counterparts,” she concluded.<\/p>\n