He said that governance issues at Postbank had been standing in the way of the government's goal to build a functional state bank that would benefit poor people. On Thursday, GroundUp reported that Postbank's payment system has been riddled with issues. This included a court case related to a contract for the payment switch technology, which enables Postbank to pay social grants through the Postbank/Sassa [South African Social Security Agency] cards. In August, Postbank had migrated to a new payment system, which disrupted payments to 600 000 social grant recipients since Monday.