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DSD SPECIAL EDITION
SOCIAL
DEVELOPMENT
MONTH
Strengthening our response to recovery
through DSD services
Building a Caring Society. Together. www.dsd.gov.za
PROTECT SOUTH AFRICA
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Message from Deputy Minister Hendrietta Ipeleng Bogopane-Zulu 7
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Welcome once again to another
It would have been amiss if
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we were to speak about Social
try to keep the sector abreast of
2020
Development month without 2020 2
the news and developments in
acknowledging the violence
The Acting DG 8 the sector. against women and children June
SASCCP Guidelines 9
May
and the importance of the social
The month of October was a very development work in this area. It
Safety First for ECDs Reopening: FS 10 important time for the Department is a fact that women and children
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where we took our services to made a priority by the President.
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Until we have overcome this pandemic, we all have to play it safe, for ourselves
around us.
Difficult though it may be, we should not expose our elderly mothers and fathers to
through social visits. Let us keep in touch with them by phone or video messagin
If they live with us, let us ensure we observe proper hygiene at all times by wa
sanitising our hands. Frequently touched surfaces, including equipment use
parents and grandparents like walkers and canes, should be frequently cleaned.
Monday, 06 July 2020 We should limit our shared spaces where possible and wear a mask when a
elderly relatives. At the same time we must be led by common sense and not isola
or sick relatives at a time when they need us most.
DEARDear Fellow South African, We massively expanded social Population Register and the
protection on a scale that has Unemployment Insurance Fund
never been attempted before in database. We set up new application
temporary. Some are now coming commitments
to an end, while others have been development
extended as the labour People with underlying infrastructuremedical
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enshrined in the Constitution, and we banking detail verification. This is a
can be proud that during this grave remarkable achievement in a very
crisis we gave
social practical expression
activities like meetingto short space
friends and of time.
family and attending
went a long way towards protecting started. We are pushing ahead with Let us all continue to play our part.
take their medication.
our society from the harsh winds of economic reforms in areas such as
COVID-19. The additional grants energy and telecommunications. The positive actions of
AFRICAN this right in many ways.
religious services and stokvel and burial society meetings are the mainstay
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of thousands vein. that we do not become Let us remember the sacrifices
and difficult winter, the beginning Relief of Distress Grant, which has of businesses would have been the architects of our own undoing. we all had to make to contain
Dear Fellow South African,
of a new season should fill us with reached some 6 million people to We implemented a COVID-19 considerably worse. the spread of the virus in the early
optimism. date. This was done within weeks of Loan Guarantee Scheme to enable The greatest vigilance is required days.
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complications and dying from coronavirus.
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NEWS
MESSAGE DEPUTY too embarrassed to access the services available to them.
MINISTER’S
We are all aware that the use of substances in South Africa
FROM
is a big problem and COVID-19 has not made the situation
easier in our country as well as globally.
MESSAGE The socio-economic instability caused so much distraction
MINISTER HENDRIETTA BOGOPANE-ZULU
that we have seen so many of the most vulnerable in our
I believe in the power of
support and togetherness.
Rehabilitation will make
sense when you are peer-
counselled by the one who
Dear DSD Family, Development Month campaign to Welkom in the Free
walked the journey as well.
State together with MEC Mamiki Qabathe. This gave
Government recognises October as Social Development us an opportunity to engage with older persons on the
society fall through the cracks. We often find that service
Month. We observe this month annually to mark impact of COVID-19 and how it has changed their lives.
users are overlooked and shunned upon.
government’s commitment to caring for the most The Department remains committed to the protection of
vulnerable in our country. vulnerable groups - especially older persons as they are The stinging issue of designer drugs in our country has
particularly a high-risk group to infection and COVID-19 made the road to recovery for drug users a difficult one.
The Department, together with its agencies (NDA and complications. We have seen in our recovery centers that this issue has
caused a challenge of a revolving door where services
SASSA) use this period to showcase a variety of its service
users have returned repeatedly.
offerings, ranging from Early Childhood Development The scourge of Gender-Based Violence and Femicide
(ECD), youth development, social protection, victim (GBVF) continues to plague our country. As part of an I believe, very strongly, that unless we strengthen the
empowerment programmes, poverty eradication and ongoing national campaign to highlight the scourge of Reduce the Stigma, Hear voices of people who use drugs, the mandate of the drug
their Voices
anti-substance programmes - to name a few. GBVF, the Department and its entities, Sassa and NDA, policy will never be fulfilled. We need the voice of drug
users. It is only through this that we will get to understand
embarked on a two-day outreach programme to Durban,
and deal with the issues that lead individuals to using
This year, the theme for DSD Month was: “Strengthening KwaZulu-Natal. Together with Minister in the Presidency drugs.
October, which is commemorated annually as Social
our response to recovery through DSD services” and for Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities, Ms Maite Development Month, was extremely busy with an array
some of the massive socio-economic challenges that were Nkoana-Mashabane and MEC of Social Development in of activities for my office. What, however, sticks out the The voices of drug users need to be elevated because if
addressed included increasing poverty and hunger and KwaZulu-Natal Ms Nonhlanhla Khoza, I visited gender- most is when on 28 October 2020, I had the pleasure of this is not done, our policies will always miss the mark of
launching the South African Network of People Who Use what they are meant to achieve.
food insecurity. Government through the Department based violence hotspots in KwaMashu, Inanda and
Drugs (SANPUD) in Bellhaven, KwaZulu-Natal Province.
of Social Development has to take the lead towards the Phoenix and got to see the devastating effects of this
“Leaving no one behind” cannot just be a fancy United
eradication of poverty and hunger, and in addressing violence against women and children. I remember back in 2014 when I was sitting with Shaun Nation slogan, it must be practical and real.
food insecurity. Shelly in my Cape Town office. We were thinking of how
I was overcome with emotion when I visited the home a network of drug users would work. We highlighted I believe in the principle of a people-centred response. It
Early in the month of October, we took our Social of 14-year-old Xolile Mdletshe, who was killed execution how we were going to go about even starting one such is through the voices and stories of the drug users that the
network but also began asking ourselves questions like government can design policies that are supportive and
style, near her home in KwaMashu, north of Durban. The who would listen to people who use drugs, who cared responsive.
teenager and her friend, Erin King, were found lying in enough to reason with their voices?
the bushes. Both had been shot in the head. We need I believe in the power of support and togetherness.
to say enough is enough and protect our women and SANPUD was eventually established in 2017 and it aims Rehabilitation will make sense when you are peer-
children from this scourge of violence. to support its members - regional networks of people who counselled by the one who walked the journey as well.
use drugs, by providing them with financial, logistical,
administrative and technical support. We are grateful to the academics that have put in so much
At the end of this month, the whole world will be joining work in the issue of drug use and the care they have shown
hands in support of the 16 Days of Activism against As a visually impaired black rural woman, I have lived to the vulnerable. Thank you Team DSD for understanding
Gender-Based Violence and I encourage each of you to through stigma and I understand what it feels like to to be the narrative of a people-centered approach. We are
play your part! deemed different. Stigma divides people. It gives people moving strides! Thank you for embarking on this journey
the idea that they are better than you are. with me.
Thank you and Stay Safe! The stigma that is surrounding drug use has become an Hendrietta Bogopane-Zulu
Minister Lindiwe Zulu obstacle that has made so many struggling with drug use Deputy Minister for Social Development
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MESSAGE FROM ACTING DIRECTOR-
GENERAL OF SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT GUIDELINES ON GENERIC
PROCESSES AND TOOLS
BY: LINTON MCHUNU FOR CHILD AND
YOUTH CARE WORK
O PRACTICE WITH
nce more, let me utilise COVID-19 global pandemic which I am also delighted by the
this space to greet all has affected most of our normal President’s Economic Recovery
INDIVIDUAL
officials of the Department face-to-face activities. As such, Plan which highlighted a three-
of Social Development and its most activities are generally still month extension of the Special
entities, the South African Social
Security Agency (SASSA) and the
being conducted through virtual
methods to prevent any further
COVID-19 Social Relief of Distress
Social Grant. The grant, which CHILDREN AND
National Development Agency
(NDA).
spread and a second wave of the
Coronavirus.
initially had to expire by the end
of October, will now be extended FAMILIES
until 31 January 2021.
I thought it would be prudent The protection of vulnerable groups
for me to remind all officials that – particularly women, children and As I conclude, I would like to
people with disabilities, remains
BY THE REGISTRAR: LANGI MALANGA
although we have wrapped up remind all of you that we are
Social Development Month, which central to Government’s objectives duty bound to drum up the beat
we commemorate each year during of improving living conditions of against the second pandemic The South African Council for children and families and make specifically on child and
the month of October, we should the underprivileged. It is in this which is gender-based violence Social Services Professions has adjustments where needed to youth care workers it is with
context that all departmental and protect vulnerable women developed guidelines for child ensure that their programme/ the understanding that an
not shy away from doing our best
and youth care work. setting specific processes and integrated approach to service
to change and improve the lives of activities are focused on and children in need of care and
tools capture these minimum delivery is necessary to meet the
the poor and vulnerable citizens of improving the lives of poor support. Secondly, we are not Generic processes and tools for requirements. Adaptations to prevention, early intervention,
our country. and vulnerable South Africans completely out of this COVID19 child and youth care work practice tools can be made depending on pre-statutory and statutory
through provision of social storm and it is still expected from with individual children and the programme/setting but the needs of children and youth. An
The month of October marked services. all of us to comply with the basics families have been developed content of the generic tools must integrated approach requires
the Department of Social of regular washing of hands with by the South African Council be included. involving different social service
Development’s period to intensify It is during October Month that soap, sanitising, keeping a social for Social Service Professions’ practitioners e.g. social workers
awareness about the Department’s all South Africans, including distance and avoiding handshaking Professional Board for Child Child and youth care workers and community development
during our social gatherings. and Youth Care Work to support should already be familiar with practitioners, and allied
mandate, policies, programmes parents, South African Police
a standardised approach to implementing many of the workers e.g. nurses, teachers,
and social services as well as the Service (SAPS), teachers, Child
professional child and youth care processes in these guidelines. police. For the management of
overall work of its entities. During Caregivers, Non-Governmental PLAY YOUR PART AND SAVE work practice in both government Some of the processes are statutory child protection cases in
DSD month, the Department Organisations (NGOs) and Faith- LIVES! and nongovernment settings. addressed in the Level 4 FETC: particular, an integrated approach
reached out to communities in Based Organisations (FBOs) are CYC curriculum such as logging to service delivery requires
collaboration with its provincial encouraged to play their part and I thank you These generic processes and and developmental assessments working in a multi-disciplinary
offices and entities – SASSA and contribute towards the protection tools provide the minimum and individual development team led by a designated social
NDA. of vulnerable persons. requirements for child and plans. A fuller orientation/ worker.
youth care work practice with training is offered in the Level
individual children and families. 5 FETC: CYC curriculum. In- These generic processes and
Social Development Month Since the beginning of October,
The guidelines include some service training will still need tools for child and youth care
is held in the context of the the Department held several
information on how to apply to be provided on any revised work practice with individual
Government’s vision of addressing engagements most of which were these generic processes and programme/ setting specific children and families are a work
the triple challenges of poverty, virtual to raise awareness around tools in specific settings namely: processes and tools. Where in progress. They will be refined
unemployment and inequality. To the services provided by the community, residential and child and youth care following a period of testing in
this effect, the Department, in the Department and its entities for the schools. In some settings, certain workers work in a the field.
quest to promote healthy lifestyles benefit of the impoverished and processes may not be applicable multidisciplinary team, other
for the elderly, traditionally marginalised members of society. to child and youth care workers members of the team should You can access these guidelines
hosts the annual Active Ageing Some of these activities took place and the guidelines highlight these be involved in the in-service on this link http://www.sacssp.
Programme during this month. exceptions. training to facilitate a shared co.za/2020/Guidelines%20
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THE NATIONAL
LOTTERY
COMMISSION
LAUNCHES
R3.5
BY: LERATO KHATEANE
A number of Social Development The 10 ECDs include Bezenet day
Early Childhood Development Care Centre, Kareehof Speelgroep;
coordinators have been assessing
The objective Kgatelopele Creche; Leretlhabetse
and determining that ECD and of Boshof Educare centre; Thari ya Mme
partial care facilities that are in a Solar Power is Educare; Tokologo ECD centre
position to reopen are verified for and others. The PPE’s, which
children’s safety. to provide a includes sanitisers, gloves, masks
safe learning
MILLION
and cleaning material were to be
To assist, the Boshof Solar Power environment as distributed to these ECD’s as soon
Park came on board with a donation as they were given the go ahead
an effort to heed
ECDs
of Personal Protective Equipment by the departmental verification
for the Lejweleputswa District’s the government’s teams to start allowing children to
Early Childhood Development call to assist go back to ECD’s.
Centres (ECDs). This was to
assist the Department of Social and protect “By providing Personal Protective
Development and the ECDs with vulnerable Equipment for Boshof and
their state of readiness to contain
the COVID-19 outbreak.
communities Hertzogville ECD centres, Boshof
Solar Power is helping to promote
during the the implementation of COVID-19
Ms Zuki Ndlela, the Economic pandemic. health and safety measures, BY: LERATO KHATEANE
Development Officer for the Solar needed by ECDs as well as a
Power handed over PPEs as part of conducive and caring environment
their corporate social responsibility for practitioners and children,”
T
support programme to six schools mothers with young children which said Mrs. Gladys Mokodutlo,
he National Lottery partnership, Ms Emily Phasiwe of would be accommodated inside
and ten ECDs in Lejweleputswa is truly needed,” says Zuki. Social Work Supervisor, in the
Commission (NLC) and Tshireletsong Pre- School, says her home to continue with the
district. Department of Social Development
the Free State Government she started her school in 1992 at daily ECD activities.
One of the many things that in Lejweleputswa District.
tfounded the ECD Infrastructure Section H3 in Botshabelo in the
The objective of Boshof Solar determines ECD readiness is the
Legacy in September. This Free State. She started with 60 In 2000 when the number of children
Power is to provide a safe learning availability of PPEs for children Through the steps taken for the
was followed by a partnership children in a shack and in 2017, increased, the matron rented space
environment as an effort to heed and caregivers for their safety and safety of children at the ECD’s the
between the Department of under the stewardship of former at the Uniting Reformed Church.
the government’s call to assist and carefully thought out Standard Department of Social Development
Social Development, the NLC and MEC and now Premier of the Later, Ms Motloung received a site
protect vulnerable communities Operating Procedures and had been conducting ECD’s
UNICEF which led to a launch of 10 FS, Ms Sisi Ntombela - NLC built for an ECD to be built at one of
during the pandemic. “Working Guidelines when they are ready to state of readiness to contain
ECD centres. the children an ECD which now the nearby informal settlements.
with the support of the various open. COVID 19 outbreak to make sure
accommodates more than 100 In 1991 they obtained their first
government departments means that when they reopen, parents
According to Ms Muriel Mafico, the children. ECD training at EDUCare Training
that we are able to provide support PPEs were donated to ECD centres and caregivers will be assured
Deputy Representative UNICEF, Centre and received an advanced
to the childcare protection system around Hertzogville and Boshof about the health and safety of
their role is to ensure that no child is Pulane Pre-School, situated elementary certificate. In 1995,
especially for working single in Tokologo Local Municipality. their children.
left behind during the registration at Sunflower park in Clocolan, she received a level 1 certificate
of ECDs. “When we started the is another beneficiary of the from the Department of Social
Vangisali Campaign, our aim was partnership. The ECD opened its Development and registered as a
to reach out to our communities doors to the underaged children Non-Profit Organisation in 1999.
to register every unregistered for the first time on the 27th of May In the year 2000, DSD gave them
ECD centre for monitoring and 1989 and started operating under financial aid to run the ECD and
evaluation purposes.” a tree at the home of the late Ms to pay ECD staff. The centre is
Pulane Motloung on weekdays. currently taking care of 58 children
One of the beneficiaries of this When it rained, all the children and has six staff members.
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WHAT
MEANS?
MINISTER
to mark the Social Development make sure that they know this,” said
Month and commemorating World the Minister.
LINDIWE
Elderly Abuse Awareness Day.
According to Statistics South Africa’s
ZULU
The event was also used to celebrate July 2020 mid-year population
the International Day for Older estimates report, 5.43 million people
Persons, which is held annually on 1 in South Africa are over the age of 60.
ENGAGES October, during Social Development
Month. This day is celebrated to
The country’s elderly growth rate rose
from 1.1 per cent (2002 to 2003) to
WITH OLDER
acknowledge the importance and three per cent (2019 to 2020).
the role the elderly play in our
PERSONS
communities. The Older Persons Act 13 of, 2006
states that the prevention of elder-
ON THEIR
Amongst other challenges they person abuse was key in improving the
expressed, older persons said they quality of lives of older persons. This
CHALLENGES
were experiencing severe abuse is also supported by the three pillars
in the hands of close family of the 2002 Madrid International Plan
members. Older persons were of Action on Ageing, which calls for
AMID also facing the challenge of being
swindled off their pension money
the development of older persons,
advancement of their health and
COVID-19
by the family members and well-being into old age, as well as
criminals. providing an enabling and supportive
PANDEMIC
environment for them to thrive.
“Older persons were also affected
negatively by this pandemic with some “With a growing elderly population,
losing their lives due to vulnerability their needs must take centre
as a result of comorbidities,” said stage - including social assistance
BY: SELLO TANG Minister Zulu. programmes and easy access to food
The Minister condemned the recently- programmes and healthcare,” said
Older persons are facing a myriad of reported abuse cases and the Minister Zulu.
challenges and are negatively affected scourge of gender-based violence The Department, together with its
by the impact of COVID-19 pandemic, against the older persons, which entities - the South African Social
Social Development Minister Lindiwe mostly resulted in devastating living Security Agency (SASSA) and National
Zulu, heard during her engagement conditions for the senior citizens of Development Agency (NDA), also
with the elderly on 09 October 2020 the country. handed over a basket of services and
at Thabong Indoor Sports Centre in interventions to address a variety of
Welkom - Free State. “Our elders need to be acknowledged challenges encountered by older
for the contributions they have persons at the event. Minister Zulu
Minister Zulu was conducting made to society and our economy. was accompanied by the MEC of
dialogues with the senior citizens on They are valued members of Social Development in the Free State
the challenges facing them and also our community and we need to Ms Mamiki Qabathe.
12 w w w. d s d . g o v. z a 13
DRINKING When the world observed the International HUNDREDS OF
HOMELESS
Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD)
ALCOHOL DURING awareness day in September, the Deputy
PERSONS
Minister for Social Development Ms Hendrietta
PREGNANCY LOCKS Bogopane-Zulu told community members of
Orange Farm in Gauteng that FASD is hundred
LIFE’S POTENTIAL percent avoidable. This year, the day was
commemorated under the theme: “Through
BY: EVANS MOLIMI the eyes of children.”
REUNIFIED
The awareness day is aimed at reminding
pregnant women and community members not WITH FAMILIES
to steal the future of children while developing
because the illness is preventable. “It is with BY: BUSI KHESWA
sadness that we witness children suffer due
to their mothers’ carelessness of abusing
alcohol during pregnancy. Drinking alcohol
while pregnant has a major impact on unborn
The fear of losing her twin babies “I was just naive. All I wanted was smoking these illegal and harmful
babies. It disrupts their development,” said
during the COVID-19 lockdown freedom and to be with my friends. substances.” Temo acknowledged
the Deputy Minister.
gave Mpho Temo the courage to I just wanted to do as I like,” she that she had been smoking but
give up on life on the streets and said during an interview with refused to say which drug she used.
Most of children born with FASD are abounded
reunite with her family. Weekly Bulletin at her uncle’s four-
by their mothers and are forced to live under
room house in Pimville where she Leona Pienaar, of the Mould
the care of caregivers and Deputy Minister
The 27-year-old from Soweto has also been reunited with her six- Empower Serve (MES), a homeless
Bogopane-Zulu said men need to walk side by
had been living on the streets of year-old son. shelter funded by the department
side and inspire their women not to consume
Johannesburg for more than a year of Social Development, said
alcoholic beverages when planning to fall
before she was taken in by a shelter She ended up at the shelter after reunification cannot be a forced
pregnant and during pregnancy. “We need
for homeless people in Hillbrow being bundled into a SA National process because this could lead
to encourage men to be supportive to their
during lockdown. She was heavily Defence Force truck when soldiers to the person being back in the
women and to be part of the pregnancy,” she
pregnant at the time. were brought in to enforce the streets within days.
said.
The founder of the Messiah Home which cares
for seven children living with FASD, Lindiwe
Zondo, said that it is heart-breaking to see
Not everyone wants to go home. Those who have managed to
mothers stealing the right to life of their unborn bridge that gap need to be supported constantly.
children at an early stage of their development.
“It is every individual’s responsibility to
Since the shelter is not designed lockdown in March. “When I
play a role. Community members have the
to accommodate children, Social arrived at the shelter I didn’t know Temo’s journey home had been
responsibility to encourage women that no
Workers tried to reunite her with her that I was expecting twins. I got the difficult, she said, because her
amount of alcohol is safe during pregnancy.
family in Pimville, Soweto. When shock of my life during childbirth,” family were worried about how she
We need to find a way as community members
they succeeded, Temo became she explains. would stay sober and care for her
to educate ourselves about the dangers
one of 483 homeless people to be children. “It took social workers
associated with drinking alcohol during
reintegrated after 2,752 were taken Social Workers told her they would and counsellors about five weeks
pregnancy,” she said.
off the streets and placed in 45 city look for foster homes because the to get them to agree to take me
shelters when the pandemic hit. shelter was not suitable for the back,” she says.
babies. “I didn’t want to lose my
Temporary shelters provided children. The centre then assisted Now social workers and counsellors
psychosocial support, medical me to get in contact with my family. visit Temo and her family weekly.
assessments and treatment for Now I’m happy I took that decision “Not everyone wants to go home.
substance abuse, but not all to go back home,” Temo added. Those who have managed to bridge
residents stayed the course. that gap need to be supported
Almost 600 returned to the streets, Temo’s younger sister, Lebohang, constantly,” said Pienaar.
and the same number discharged said she was cautiously hopeful
themselves from drug rehabilitation about the future. “Mpho is back The Department is currently rolling
centres. now but still behaves the same way out an integrated strategy that
as when she was still in the streets,” will ensure that all the role players
Temo said peer pressure made her she said. “She must now just realise respond adequately in response to
leave home to live on the streets. that she has three children and stop the plight of the homeless.
14 w w w. d s d . g o v. z a 15
KZN GOOD STORIES ON SOCIAL GRANT
BY: LONWABO GONELA
T
he National Development the Care and support funded are involved in lobbying
Agency (NDA) handed over structures like CSOs. The NDA is and advocacy which will also ensure
“The social grant has assisted “I, Agrippa Bonginkosi Ndlovu, “A good-hearted citizen in a cheque of R7.1 million mandated by the South African maximum awareness of the rights
me very much, especially would like to write my story Pinetown by the name of Ms to Civil Society Organisations Parliament to channel funds and of women, children and LGBTQI
the additional R500 that we about how the disability grant Shayne Farrel saw this guy with (CSOs) in Kwa-Zulu Natal that will strengthen CSOs to implement persons in our communities,’’ said
received during COVID-19. has helped me in different ways a disability who used to beg on be implementing programmes community development Mrs Thamo Mzobe - the NDA
It assisted me in buying since I started receiving it in the street corner Shayne used to and services for the “Prevention, programmes. In response to Chief Executive Officer.
groceries and winter clothes 2016. My daily life has been very help him all the time so she did Response, Care, Support and the above, the Department of
for my four children. The effective and efficient because not know how to help him any Healing” of all vulnerable persons Social Development, through In January 2020, the NDA called
service that I have received of the disability grant. I think further and she decided to write affected by the scourge of gender- the Criminal Asset Recovery for proposals from NPOs who
at the Vulindlela Local Office and feel that the Howick SASSA to SASSA Head Office. Her email based violence and femicide Account (CARA), has entrusted the work in the sector. The NDA
is phenomenal. I would rate Service Centre is doing its level was forwarded to the Pinetown (GBVF). NDA with the implementation of a received 525 applications of
them 10 out of 10 due to best to serve the beneficiaries. Local Office. Mrs Jay Naicker, the Victim Empowerment Programme which 312 were recommended
the service they delivered to They are the best in customer Pinetown Local Office Manager, The NDA handed over the cheque by grant funding and providing for funding nationally. Of the
me.” Londeka Mhlophe from service and care. Thank you!” had a meeting with Shayne to to CSOs during Minister of Social capacity building to organisations 312 NPOs, 75 are emerging NPOs
Pietermaritzburg - Agrippa Bonginkosi Ndlovu see how they were going to assist Development, Ms Lindiwe Zulu’s implementing GBV programmes and 237 are established. The
from Empophomeni Mxolisi Dlamini with a social grant. Social Development Month in all the nine provinces. For this emerging NPOs will receive R200
An application for a disability grant outreach programme in the purpose, the Department has 000 and the established NPOs
was lodged and it was approved eThekwini district in October 2020. dedicated R95 million to the R300 000 each.
on Friday 18 September 2020. I NDA to implement the CARA
began getting my grant in October South Africa has developed a programme. A total of 25 CSOs in Kwa-
2020.” - Mxolisi Dlamini from National Strategic Plan (NSP) Zulu Natal have been funded
Pinetown. on GBVF to provide a cohesive “As a conduit of funds for CSOs, through the R7.1 Million.
strategic framework to guide the NDA is looking forward to The Department of Social
the national response to this strengthening the capacity of Development will continue to
scourge. The NSP has six pillars CSOs that are rendering services focus on the Top 30 hot spots
“I am Sivinasan Vasigee who was and the Department of Social to eradicate the scourge of for GBV as pronounced by
born in1948. I have been receiving Development is responsible for GBV. The CSOs are a critical President Ramaphosa in his
the grant since I turned 60 in 2008. pillar 4 which is Response, Care, stakeholder as an extended address to the nation in August
I am completely disabled. The Support and Healing. arm of government in the 2020. The following areas have
grant has been helpful in terms of implementation of government been identified in Kwa-Zulu
affording me to pay for electricity, One of the strategic interventions in interventions. We have ensured Natal - Osizweni, Kwa-Mashu
rates and groceries.I would not the next five years is strengthening that most of the organisations and Ntuzuma.
be able to survive without my
social grant. “ - Sivinasan Vasigee
from Northdale
“I would like to take this opportunity receive a disability grant at one point all off, thugs broke into his house a
to offer my most sincere thanks to but gave it up when Browns School couple of years back and stole all of
Hester for forwarding my email to for children with special needs, their clothes and other items leaving
the relevant parties and to the staff offered him a job as a gate security. them with only the clothes on their
at the Pinetown Sassa branch - in But his constant seizures became an backs and removing the little bit of
particular Mrs Naiker for the kind issue as he became unconscious for dignity he had left.
and helpful support and assistance sometimes hours at a time. Justice
in getting a gentleman, by the name was then let go from his work due to With his need to beg daily in order to
of Justice, a disability grant. this. Despondent and desperate, he feed himself and his relatives and his
resorted to begging at the robots difficulty being in queues, getting a
Justice’s disability started when he not only to support himself but also disability grant again was something
was in his teens - though the cause his orphaned niece and now her little he had all but given up on. But
of it has never been diagnosed. His boy. Due to a poor diet and lack of thanks to the wonderful response
parents passed on not long after then care his condition has deteriorated from Sassa and its staff, he received
leaving Justice to fend for himself. even more over the past few years. his first payment in October. He is
THE NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AGENCY
INVESTS R7.1 MILLION TOWARDS
Later, he was forced to look after his It has got to the point that he cannot over the moon and so excited and
niece and her young child which he walk without the aid of a walker and so am I.” - Nontobeko Sibeko from
is still supporting today. He used to even then he struggles. To top it Durban
GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE IN KWA-ZULU NATAL
16 w w w. d s d . g o v. z a 17
WELL-BEING AND
HEALTH, A CHALLENGE
BY: EVANS MOLIMI
FOR RURAL
COMMUNITIES
In a tiny rural community of associated with substance abuse
EmaDungeni in the heart of and early sexual debut at our
Kwa-Zulu Natal, fourteen young With a little schools. Our dream is to create
women are lovingly aiming to research, she our destiny to change the way
restore cultural dignity of their young people think,” she said
community by fighting high rate recruited fourteen
BY: EVANS MOLIMI of teenage pregnancy, Gender- young women Furthermore, Thabile said it is
Based Violence and substance
abuse.
in her area to important and courageous to see
teenager putting their mind in
fight high rate of what they want to achieve to be
C social ills in their
ommunity members of because cancer is like a bullet that During the drive Deputy Minister Thabile Chiliza (27) has always the ambassadors of change since
community.
Ukhahlamba in the province can hit anyone. Bogopane-Zulu encouraged men loved seeing people chasing their there is nothing imposable in life.
of KwaZulu-Natal came to also screen for breast cancer dream than destroying them.
in their numbers to access a “I am happy to see service delivery because according to research “we are going to encourage young
basket of free services rendered on my doorstep. I hope this will conducted, 1 percent of men in With a little research, she recruited people especially girls to be the
by the Pink Drive in partnership encourage all community members South Africa have cancer. fourteen young women in her area change they want in life. We are
with the Department of Social especially men to visit Community to fight high rate of social ills in their going to support and educate
Development. Health Centres to do health check- Pink Drive is a Non-Profit community. But this led to these them to be independent. I have
ups and screening. Even though Organisation which brings health young women registering a realized that young girls
The objective of this partnership we know men and Doctors do not related education and cancer Non-Profit Organization enter into early marriages
is to create awareness on the mix, but they must be encouraged screening services, care and (NPO), Ikusasa Lethu because they think they
effects of cancer for all genders by for their health benefits,” he said. support by reaching out to poor women’s Project. will get protection and
providing education and rendering communities. provision of money
cancer screening and other health While there are different kinds of Most young people by older men. This
related services. cancer, Deputy Minister Hendrietta The drive includes a basket of have thought perception needs
Bogopane-Zulu said cancer bears free services to be rendered on would be a to change,
The drive delivers integrated several negative challenges for the day, include education on quite interesting women need the
services in poor communities across one’s physical, psychological and women’s health, pap smears for in spoiling independency,”
the country to their doorsteps. emotional behaviour. cervical cancer, clinical self-breast themselves by Thabile said.
examinations, mammograms and engaging in
According to 49-year-old Mr “One on the negative impact PSA screening for men over the sexual activities The lockdown
Lethukuthula Kwesa, most men of cancer, it spoils one’s ability age of 40. and substance has brought
are afraid to know their health to address bedroom politics. abuse. But challenges and
status as compared to their female Cancer impacts negatively Thabile and opportunities
counterpart especially in rural on one’s behaviour and it can her peers knew for Thabile.
areas. lead to Gender-Based Violence. they could be the She managed
Bogopane-Zulu said. breath of new life, to recruit young
“It is worrying to see how most men and introduction of women so they can
are not interested in knowing their their NPO will assist register their NPO.
health status especially cancer. in fighting social ills that However, she used the
Most men lose their lives through are taking young people’s little time she got during
cancer without knowing. I have potential backward. the COVID-19 lockdown to
learned a lot today. I am going assess the challenges facing her
to launch men’s forum in our area The NPO may be in a deep rural community.
with the aim to encourage men area in the middle of sugar cane gave her courage
to be observant on their health and forestry plantation, but the to champion change to inspire “The most common challenges
encounters. Almost 80 percent of organization aims to restore young people to chase their in are area are teenage
households are fatherless. I think the rights and dignity of young dream and reach for gold. pregnancy, GBV, unemployment,
it is because men die without even people. social crimes, alcohol and drug
knowing status of their wellbeing,” “we are also working toward abuse which young people
Kwesa said. Thabile said growing up in this creating an awareness to engage indulge in these activities,”
area with less opportunities teenagers about the dangers she concluded.
Furthermore, Kwesa said
community members need to
be impowered with knowledge
18 w w w. d s d . g o v. z a 19DESTITUTE FAMILIES RECEIVE YOUNG WOMEN MUST SPEAK OUT
FOOD RELIEF FROM MEC MOILOA AGAINST THE SCOURGE OF GENDER-
BASED VIOLENCE
BY: NGOBE COMFORT
As long as society views female and raped. She attempted to Mpumalanga Ms Thandi Shongwe
counterparts as less important than commit suicide after the incident. assured young women that the
their male counterparts, winning Government has put Gender-
the war against violence against She said she blamed herself Based Violence as a priority. ‘’As
women and children will be a for the attack and began to Government, we will continue
daunting task for government. live with anger. She then realised to attend court cases in
that it was not her fault, that solidarity with those who have
These were the views expressed the fault was with those who been victimised and offer the
by girls and young women attacked her and today she is the necessary support. We want to
between the ages of 14 and survivor who offers counselling send a clear message that there
22 from Mpumalanga during to those who may be in her is no mercy for those who abuse,
a Girls Assembly which was situation. kill, rape and abduct women in our
organised by the Mpumalanga province,’’ she said.
Provincial Department of Social “What makes me happy now is
Development at the Ingwenyama that the current government has MEC Shongwe concluded by
Conference and Sports Facilities. made programs and facilities urging women to refrain from
available where issues of Gender- withdrawing Gender Based
An anonymous caller who Based Violence are addressed in a Violence cases as this derails
BY: OBUSITŠWE T. KEBONÈILWE wanted to be known as ‘Good confidential and dignified manner the government’s effort in
Enough’ from Scheomansdaal in which assists in the healing successfully prosecuting and
Mpumalanga spoke about her process,” she says. sentencing perpetrators of
T
he Department of Social everything within the law to assist Derby to donate PPEst. The ECD tormenting experience when both Gender-Based Violence in
Development has given affected families. “We share your practitioners told Moiloa that she and her friend were attacked Social Development MEC in the country.
about 28 households in frustrations and we will intervene lockdown has caused them to lose
Kgetleng Rivier local municipality in your plight. We understand that their income.
food parcels and personal we might not cater for everyone,
protective equipment (PPEs) to but being there for those who “Parents stopped paying fees
fight hunger, while keeping the need food relief the most is a great for their children as soon as the
spread of COVID 19 at bay. relief to us.” lockdown began. It has been
difficult to pay electricity bills and
Most of the households that were Mapula Mophuthing, a resident of our staff. We have learnt the hard
identified depend on odd jobs Reagile, was overjoyed to receive way during this period. We will
from the farms in Swaartruggens food relief from MEC Moiloa. take the lessons into the future
had faced hardships and hunger Mophuthing and her husband stay whereby we should be ready in
that was exacerbated by national in a dilapidated shack with their case disaster strikes, there would
lockdown. two children. They earn a living be something to fall back on,”
by recycling bottles and other Manager of Kopano Early Learning
Leading a door-to-door expedition recyclable materials. She said Centre at Mazista - Lindiwe Katake
at Borolelo, Reagile and near since the lockdown began, their Kopano said.
Swaatruggens, Boitumelo Moiloa lives had been difficult. “We had
- MEC for Social Development in to ask for food from neighbours. “With these PPEs, we hope we will
the North West, noted that the We welcome this food parcel. put the mind of parents at ease.
Coronavirus pandemic has added We will make sure that we are not Many parents were reluctant and
an extra load on food security of wasteful so that it will last longer,” afraid to release their children
many families who had to balance she said. to us,” added Moiloa as she
between making a living and handed sanitisers to the ECD.
observing lockdown restrictions. Part of the activities of the day Moiloa expressed satisfaction at
took MEC Moiloa to Early the precautionary measures and
As a caring government Moiloa, Childhood Development centres adherence to COVID-19 protocols
said the Department would do at Mazista Settlement and at the centre.
20 w w w. d s d . g o v. z a 21NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AGENCY FUNDS
CAPE TOWN SOCIETY OF THE BLIND CLINIC
FOR VISUALLY IMPAIRED PERSONS
BY: LESEGO RANCHU
In line with best practice and in the result that their quality of life is CTSB has a long history of providing
keeping abreast of technological affected as their eyesight continues successful programmes for the blind
advancements, the Cape Town to deteriorate. This is especially and is in the best position to extend
Society of theBlind (CTSB) this week detrimental to young children and its services to those with low vision
opened a Low Vision Clinic at their scholars who miss out on critical as well. Over the past year, CTSB
premises in Salt River, Cape Town. learning opportunities due to their has actively engaged in fundraising
DSD LAUNCHES VILLAGE TO VILLAGE
limited vision. efforts to secure the necessary
Visually impaired persons will be finances to open this low vision clinic.
TO IMPROVE RURAL ECONOMY
able to visit the clinic to see an “In line with our development
optometrist who will diagnose approach towards the services ‘I believe that this clinic could
their needs and direct them to the rendered to the disability sector, significantly improve the
rehabilitation team to assist the NDA responded to the CTSBs employability of thousands of South
client with devices that will make application for additional funding Africans suffering from low vision.
BY: EVANS MOLIMI their daily living more comfortable. after they had independently raised With timely low vision intervention,
assessment and rehabilitation we
The National Development Agency plan to equip low vision students to
The launch of the village to village members to form cooperatives According to Deputy Minister,
(NDA) is one of the clinic’s four cope and excel in a sighted world.
initiative aims to improve the rural and Non-Profit Organizations tribal offices are the most
funders, the others being The Jannie The good news is that correct low
economy and inspire traditional because it is their command to important support of local Mouton, Nussbaum and Cohen vision care will mitigate or alleviate
leaders to enthusiastically respond improve the lives of ordinary government because they are the Family Foundations. The NDA has the effects of low vision and can
to Gender-Based Violence and citizens. ones who know the difficulties contributed R558 748, 03 for staff arrest the slide into premature
the high number of new HIV/ and challenges facing ordinary training, furniture, assistive sensory blindness. We are excited and proud
AIDS infection in rural areas. However, community members individuals. and visual devices including playing that the NDA shares this vision and
The Driefontein Tribal Council were encouraged to be part of and learning equipment. have helped us bring it to fruition,’
of Ladysmith in KwaZulu Natal the commitment of social and “The aim is to help the helpless to says Lizelle De Wet, CTSB Chief
is one of many tribal authorities behavioural change to fight improve their lives on their own. I Persons with low vision need to Executive Officer.
in the country faced with a high poverty in their respective areas. am overwhelmed and at the same have specialised assessment and
rate of unemployment, GBV, Bogopane-Zulu said that the time exited that this is such a big rehabilitation which cannot be Cape Town Society for the Blind is a
teenage pregnancy, new HIV/ time is now for government and milestone for communities under done by a regular optometrist. Cape Town based NGO established
AIDS infections and poverty in the traditional leaders to be relevant tribal offices that their lives are Due to the dire shortage of low in 1929 to address the needs of blind
country. to assist community members about to change for the better vision assessment services, patients and visually impaired persons. The
in forming cooperatives that through the village to village often need to wait up to a year half of the funds required to open organisation has grown from humble
This is a commitment made in shall contest to contribute to initiative. It is such a righteousness before they receive treatment with the low vision clinic. beginnings to a fully-fledged
2018 between the Department of mainstream economy. thing to do to change the lives of campus housing a training facility,
Social Development and the poor people through this initiative This brings about a strong partnership workshops, a showroom and a small
National House of Traditional “The reality is that the village to and beyond,” Bogopane-Zulu that attends to the visual and coffee shop. Courses range from
Leaders to improve the lives of
people living under the rule of
village initiative shall contest
poverty between community
explained.
The vision is sensory needs of the elderly, young
children and other vulnerable
computer classes and braille to cane
weaving. Their vision is to ensure
tribal authority. members to fight poverty side On the day of the launch, to ensure that persons in less advantaged that blind and visually impaired
Deputy Minister Hendrietta
by side. Social Development
aims to change the lives of poor
fifty vulnerable community
members who were left without
blind and visually communities. persons contribute to society and
are independent.
Bogopane-Zulu encouraged people for good, but not by only any form on income as a result of impaired persons The equipment we have assisted
the traditional leaders of Khumalo
Tribal Office to mobilize community
providing social grants,” Deputy
Minister said.
lockdown regulations were given
food parcels.
contribute to with goes a long way towards
interventions linked to the
This partnership is a direct
intervention outcome by the Deputy
society and are specialised assessment, restoration Minister of Social Development, Ms
of sight and blindness prevention Hendrietta Bogopane-Zulu, after
independent. strategies,” says Mrs Thamo Mzobe, engagements with the Cape Town
Chief Executive Officer of NDA. Society of the Blind.
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