'I can't pay': Bathabile Dlamini defies ConCourt costs order

Ex-minister claims the state has blocked her pension

21 February 2021 - 00:05 By nonkululeko njilo

Former social development minister Bathabile Dlamini is defying a Constitutional Court order to pay part of the legal costs two NGOs won in a landmark social grants case against her in 2018, saying her ministerial pension is being blocked...

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