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Ipid report clearing police in Sassa water cannon drama slammed
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Cape Town - A report by the Independent Police Investigative Directorate (Ipid), clearing police of misconduct for the use of water cannons on people queuing outside South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) offices in Bellville, on January 15, has been criticized.
Social Development Minister Lindiwe Zulu was at the branch at the time, to assess the state of several Sassa offices, amid the termination of temporary disability grants (TDG) and care dependency grants in December 2020.
IPID commenced its investigation in February, following an outcry over the use of force by the Public Order Policing (POPs), in an attempt at queue management.
The Standing Committee on Social Development were briefed on what went wrong that led to hundreds of disabled people seeking the extension of their grants being water-sprayed by police outside the Bellville Sassa offices. Photograph: Phando Jikelo/African News Agency (ANA)
I would like to apologise to those inconvenienced, says Sassa executive
By Sukaina Ishmail
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Cape Town - The Standing Committee on Social Development were briefed on what went wrong that led to hundreds of disabled people seeking the extension of their grants being water-sprayed by police outside the Bellville Sassa offices.
Sassa regional executive manager Bandile Maqetuka said: “This (overcrowding at offices) is understood given the challenge of deepening poverty and the complications that came with the revised lockdown restrictions.