She said that assumptions had been made about SAPO’s capabilities without empirical evidence that would suggest that Sassa “give everything to the Post Office”.
Is it not the responsibility of SASSA to outline a process that will verify SAPO's capabilities? It will seem that it is the minister and SASSA who are in fact making self serving assumptions about the capabilities of SAPO. The minister and SASSA must tell SAPO in which areas they doubt their capacities and what evidence is required to allay their doubts - she can't just rush to issue tenders on the assumption that SAPO does not have sufficient capacity. I sense that this resistance to hand over everything to SAPO has more to do with the lucrative tender patronage system that th minister seem to want to preserve as much of as possible in the payment of social grants 
 What happened to Radical Transformation and the Developmental State when ministers fight so hard to outsource government functions to expensive private providers?