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23 April 2025 | ARTICLE
By Joseph Bracken
Children playing outside a Pietermaritzburg Children’s Home. Photo: Joseph Bracken Last week the KwaZulu-Natal Department of Social Development notified funded organisations that payments for the fi...
8 April 2025 | ARTICLE
By Marecia Damons
...DSD) is proposing changes to its Social Assistance Act, which includes removing the questions about income in the application of the R370-Social Relief of Distress (SRD) grant. The proposed amendments...
19 March 2025 | ARTICLE
By Marecia Damons
...DSD, told MPs that the government had appealed against the judgment “on the basis that the court judgment is flawed”. In his order granting leave to appeal, Twala said, “Although I am satisfied that I...
28 January 2025 | ARTICLE
By Daniel Steyn and Kimberly Mutandiro
The Gauteng Department of Social Development has admitted that it failed to comply with court orders. Illustration: Lisa Nelson The Gauteng Department of Social Development has admitted in court tha...
24 January 2025 | ARTICLE
By Marecia Damons
...DSD) Social Assistance Act (SAA). New regulations reduced the monthly income threshold from R595 to R350, and limited applications to online submissions. Bank verification was also used to assess appl...
21 January 2025 | ARTICLE
By Marecia Damons
...DSD) following allegations of fraud within the grant system. Last Thursday, Bridget Masango, chair of Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Social Development, said the committee would call for a full i...
16 January 2025 | ARTICLE
By Marecia Damons
...DSD had been given more time to conduct a thorough investigation into the SRD fraud allegations. No deadline has been set for a final report, Masango said, but the committee would discuss the matter a...
12 December 2024 | ARTICLE
By Daniel Steyn and Raymond Joseph
Half a billion rand was funneled via non-profit organisations to private companies without tender processes between 2016 and 2018. Graphic: Lisa Nelson. July Maphosa, a former senior official at the...
11 December 2024 | ARTICLE
By Daniel Steyn and Raymond Joseph
...DSD officials, for goods and services outside of the scope of the contracts with the department. Decision-making was delegated to the department’s non-profit organisation directorate, meaning the depa...
5 December 2024 | ARTICLE
By Daniel Steyn
The Gauteng Care Crisis Committee, representing dozens of non-profit organisations funded by the Gauteng Department of Social Development, has obtained a third court order against the department. Ill...