We will feel the impact of the grant crisis caused by the Department of Social Development for some time. The Constitutional Court victory for Black Sash,which sought to ensure some fairness in the suspension of the declaration of invalidity of the contract between the South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) and Cash Paymaster Services (CPS), was an critical moment for civil society organisations fighting social injustice and a moment of considered stretching by the Constitutional Court. But there is also an additional victory for information rights worth commenting on.
Source: dailymaverick.co.za