Social Development mismanagement
Court intervenes in Gauteng government’s funding blunders
Dozens of organisations have not been paid by the provincial social development department
By Daniel Steyn
News | 18 November 2024
Government-funded organisations getting a rough deal, Parliament told
Women’s shelters anxious about being shut down
Brief | 31 October 2024
Criminal charges for previous head of Gauteng Department of Social Development
Matilda Gasela is facing corruption and fraud charges for tender irregularities when she was head of the agriculture department
By Daniel Steyn
News | 17 October 2024
Food meant for poor families is rotting in a Gauteng food bank
The Department of Social Development has been supplying food but not the funds to distribute it
By Kimberly Mutandiro and Daniel Steyn
Brief | 8 October 2024
Hundreds of drug users stranded after Gauteng government closes rehabs
Life Nkanyisa’s drug rehabs, formerly known as Life Esidimeni, had capacity for 750 people
By Daniel Steyn and Joseph Bracken
News | 4 October 2024
Welfare organisations unpaid for six months by Gauteng government
This is despite having signed agreements with the provincial Department of Social Development
By Joseph Bracken and Daniel Steyn
News | 25 September 2024
Half a billion in unspent funds returned to Treasury by Gauteng department
Auditor-General flags irregular expenditure and insufficient controls in 2023/24 report
By Daniel Steyn
News | 5 September 2024
The three businessmen and the Gauteng social development department’s millions
The department says the Hawks are investigating the sustainable livelihoods programme but will not provide details
By Daniel Steyn, Joseph Bracken, Raymond Joseph and Kimberly Mutandiro
News | 4 September 2024
Social development scandal: Last three suspended officials return to work
They were suspended during the term of MEC Mbali Hlophe when the department was in chaos
By Raymond Joseph and Daniel Steyn
News | 26 August 2024