# The UDM says it is deeply concerned by the avalanche of revelations exposing the collapse of governance, accountability, and ethics within the Department of Social Development, and the South African Social Security Agency. The department has been criticised for spending three-million-rand for a trip to New York for seven officials. UDM’s Zandile Phiri says, on the other hand, SASSA has been engulfed in payment failures, technical breakdowns, and corruption, which have repeatedly left millions of grant recipients destitute:
UDM says Social Development Department has regressed into a web of mismanagement [SOUND]
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