FUL: Nicole Fritz comment on SASSA judgment

17th March 2017

FUL: Nicole Fritz comment on SASSA judgment

Freedom Under Law: Black Sash Trust and Freedom Under Law v Minister of Social Development & Others

Freedom Under Law (FUL) welcomes the ruling by the Constitutional Court in the matter of Black Sash Trust and Freedom Under Law v Minister of Social Development & Others. The Constitutional Court made orders in line with the relief sought by FUL, namely that:

 

FUL also notes the serious concern registered by the Court at the extent to which the Minister of Social Development and SASSA have placed a cornerstone of our constitutional democracy, the right to social assistance, in jeopardy, reflected in the Court’s requirement that the Minister show cause why she should not personally pay the costs of the application.

In handing down its judgment and in crafting so detailed an order, subjecting the ongoing process of social grant payment to rigorous oversight and in so doing effectively quelling the anxiety that millions of grant recipients must have felt, the Constitutional Court has again shown us today why it is rightly to be regarded as the “upper guardian” of our Constitution.

 

Issued by Freedom Under Law: