Parliament's Portfolio Committee on Science, Innovation and Technology advocates for a tech-driven overhaul of South Africa's SASSA grant payment system.
Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Science, Innovation and Technology has called for the urgent use of South Africa’s scientific and technological capacity to resolve persistent data migration and payment challenges affecting social grant beneficiaries.
Committee Chairperson Lusizo Makhubela said the country’s social protection system has for years been hampered by avoidable digital inefficiencies that could be fixed through stronger collaboration between government departments and state innovation bodies.
“Technology and digitisation should fundamentally transform the state’s good social protection programme to the benefit of the poor people,” Makhubela said.
“Resolvable challenges need not be prolonged when South Africa has such advanced government entities who specialise in innovation and science.”
