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13 May 2021 - Lee-Anne Bruce CALS, Black Sash and Freedom Under Law note that former Minister of Social Development Bathabile Dlamini has paid the costs awarded against her personally The Black Sash Trust, the Centre for Applied Legal Studies and Freedom Under Law note that Bathabile Dlamini has paid the costs awarded against her personally by the Constitutional Court for her role in the social grants crisis almost three years ago. The former Minister of Social Development was ordered to pay a portion of the costs of litigation brought by civil society organisations in an effort to protect th...

GCIS In 2018, the Constitutional Court handed down a personal costs order against Bathabile Dlamini over her handling of the appointment of a social grants distributor. Dlamini had failed to pay a 20% portion of the legal costs incurred by the Black Sash Trust and Freedom Under Law in bringing the case against her. The organisations say they have received confirmation that Dlamini has settled a bill of more than R600 000. Former social development minister Bathabile Dlamini has paid the personal costs order handed down against her by the Constitutional Court, the groups who took her to court ...

Bathabile Dlamini finally pays R650 000 ordered by court after years of stalling 13 May 2021 2:21 PM Share This: "It was a real battle to get those monies paid over. It required real doggedness," says Nicole Fritz of Freedom Under Law. Bathabile Dlamini has finally paid a R650 000 personal cost order against her. In September 2018, the Constitutional Court ordered the former Social Development Minister to pay a portion of the legal costs in a case relating to the social grants payment system. The court ruled that Dlamini had failed to carry out her duties as a minister, calling her behaviour ...

She paid R55,000 to the Black Sash and R600,000 to Freedom Under Law. The Centre for Applied Legal Studies has welcomed Dlamini's payment "What the Constitutional Court found in its judgment is that usually if state officials are acting in good faith and with good intentions, then they're not going to be held personly liable for their conduct or for things that have happened in their department," said the centre's Ariella Scher. "The court held that the former minister Dlamini's conduct was in bad faith, that her conduct aimed at undermining the social grant system, that she implemented para...

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