Social Development mismanagement
Inside Gauteng’s R500-million corruption scheme (part two)
How a network of non-profit organisations, co-operatives and companies captured the department’s “sustainable livelihoods” budget
By Daniel Steyn and Raymond Joseph
Feature | 12 December 2024
Gauteng government’s buried corruption investigation (part one)
Forensic Audit into R500-million corruption in Department of Social Development was hidden. Non-profit organisations paid the price.
By Daniel Steyn and Raymond Joseph
News | 11 December 2024
Third court order against Gauteng social development department
Nine months into the financial year, some non-profit organisations still not paid
By Daniel Steyn
Brief | 5 December 2024
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