She blamed Sassa officials for the grants crisis‚ but the agency's CEO Thokozani Magwazi and former director general Zane Dangor disputed her version of events.
The Black Sash Trust approached the court in March after the SA Social Security Agency (Sassa) acknowledged it would not be able to pay millions of grants from April 1‚ despite promising the court in November 2015 it would do so.
The organisation wanted the court to resume its supervisory jurisdiction for the payment of social grants.
The court had in 2014 declared that the 2012 contract between Sassa and Cash Paymaster Services (CPS) for the payment of grants was invalid.
However‚ the court extended the invalid contract to give Sassa time to open a new tender process for social grant payments.
The court discharged its supervisory role in November 2015 after Sassa informed the court it would not open a new tender and would undertake the payment of grants in-house.
But the department of social development and Sassa only informed the court in March this year that it would be unable to pay the grants in-house from April 1.
- TimesLIVE