Question NW23 to the Minister of Social Development
10 May 2017 - NW23
Masango, Ms B to ask the Minister of Social Development
(1)With reference to her reply to oral question 107 on 31 August 2016, (a) what are the detailed tasks of each of the five specified work streams and (b) how many persons are employed to work on each of the specified work streams; (2) whether any persons who are not employed by her department have been employed to work on any of the specified work streams; if not, what is the position in this regard; if so, (a) what are the names of the specified persons and (b) how much does it cost to employ the specified persons; (3) what are the relevant details of the thorough due diligence currently being conducted by the specified work streams into the systems used by other social security agencies, including banks and the infrastructure developed by the current service provider?
Reply:
1. (a) The tasks of the workstreams are the following:
- The legislative Policy Requirements Management is to provide comprehensive legal advice to SASSA and other in relation to the future workstream payment system focusing on legislative management policy requirements, contract development and design of the new system.
- Information and Business System and Banking Services is to facilitate for the insourcing of an ICT platform that will integrate the application of payment management system for social assistance and related social security benefits.
- The Benefits and Local Economic Development is to identify the benefits and economic development initiatives to be implemented with delivery of the comprehensive security system
- Change and Stakeholder Management workstream; is to provide guidance to the change management and stakeholder engagement.
- Human resource Management workstream is to facilitate for the development of the organisational organogram and skills training programme that will support the new proposed functions to be institutionalized within SASSA.
(b) Three ( 3 ) workstream leaders were appointed with 14 additional support staff members.
(2) Yes
(i) Mr Patrick Monyeki is the workstream leader for Information and Business System and Banking Services and the following personnel is employed by him.
- Mr Warwick Metcalfe: Programme Manager
- Mr Julius Segole: BIS Project Manager
- Ms.Colleen Armstrong: PMO Project Manager
- Mr Manie Van Wyk: Banking Project Manager
- Mr Christian Nyakanyanga: Security Architect
- Ms.Laecoln Snayman: Project Administrator
- Mr Senzo Derrick Ndlovu: Business Analyst
- Ms. Nombuso Zuma :Business Analyst
- Mr Nazeem Ally: Architect
- Mr Aboobaker Ashis: Architect
- Mr Ronald Barnes: Architect
- Mr Maneesh Singh Architect
- Mr Jaco Moller: Quality and Risk Manager
The Steering Committee comprises of DSD and SASSA officials.
- Mr Tim Sukazi is the team leader for the Legislative and Policy Workstream and supported by Ms Ziyanda Nyanda
(ii) Ms. Tankiso Parkies is the Benefits and Local Economic Development workstream leader. The leader is supported by the alternative pay-points assessment and merchants suitability assessment teams established within SASSA. Other members of the team:
- Mr Dominic Nsele
- Ms Unathi Mguye
- Ms June Mabhida
- Ms Ngobese
(iii) Human Resource management: Dumisile Ndlovu (SASSA official)
(iv) Communication and change management team is supported by Mr Sgwili Gumede and the internal SASSA staff
(b) Mr P Monyeki R35 897 645.01/ Mr T Sukazi R7 620 227.40 and Ms. T Parkies R4 381 726.00
2. The due diligence that are being conducted include the following:
- ICT Infrastructure
- Data Integration system
- Transaction data analysis capability