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SACP Eastern Cape Press Statement, 12 August 2014 Biometric system: People should come first The South African Communist Party (SACP) in the Eastern Cape welcomes the announcement by the South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) to review the use of biometric system. The announcement is in line with the call we have made as early as February as it was clear that the system will not will not make the lives of the poor and elderly any easy. We are of the view that the review process as has been announced should not be a boardroom exercise but a public participatory process on how best this service can be improved. As we have said, this biometric system will complicate the lives of the poor who are social grant beneficiaries as it requires a lot from them, the concrete experience has proven us right. It is in this context that we have called on government to halt and review the decision by SASSA to use biometric system and get to the bottom of what informed the decision to use the biometric system. We believe that review of the system will help in introducing a system that is user friendly to the social grant beneficiaries in general and elderly in particular and protect the state from corrupt elements. It is our firm view, as the South African Communists that people whether they receive social assistance or not should be afforded their freedom of choice. They should choose their own Network provider without being forced to use a certain Network provider as that erodes their freedom of choice. We trust that the decision to review the biometric system will not be a by the way matter but be concluded. We are calling upon our government to ensure that all agencies who are servicing our people, put people first. The interest of the people should be at the centre of all decisions. Issued by SACP Eastern Cape Contact: Siyabonga Mdodi SACP Provincial Spokesperson Cell: 083 358 8070 Fax: 086 268 1281 Email: [email protected] -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
