Minister Bathabile Dlamini expressed shock at the prospect of personally having to pay the costs of the social grants litigation. She believes she played no part in the social grant debacle, and insists on blaming her officials for the crisis.
Dlamini defiance is a classic example of denialist behaviour - a defence mechanism triggered to avoid a mentally disturbing truth even though established by irrefutable empirical evidence.
Dlamini's response to the court's order to show cause will be filled with denialist obfuscatory rhetoric. Her response will allay any doubt to order Dlamini to personally pay the costs of litigation.
No amount of castigation or excoriation by the court can rehabilitate Dlamini. She will, however, be saddled with a huge pecuniary outlay from a punitive cost order as punishment for her especially harmful, outrageous and unforgivable behaviour. A warranted lesson for the emotional distress she wrought on the poor, and a lesson for her comrades in government to seriously heed.
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