What is the detailed breakdown of the total amount spent on the (a) public hearings and (b) parliamentary process for the Children’s Amendment Bill [B18-2020] to date?
a) As the Honourable Member is aware, the legislative making process is guided by the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa. One of the key activities in the legislative making process is public consultation/ hearings that are conducted by the relevant Portfolio Committee across the country to solicit public inputs on a matter of national interest. This is called participatory democracy. Costs associated ...
(1)With reference to the expiry date of the gold cards of the SA Social Security Agency (SASSA) being postponed until 31 December 2023, what process do SASSA beneficiaries need to follow in order to renew their SASSA gold cards;
(2) whether any plans are in place to roll out the renewal process of the gold cards before 31 December 2023; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details;
(3) whether any plans are in place to prevent thousands of beneficiaries from running out of time to renew their gold cards; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details;
(4) what steps should those SASSA beneficiaries take who wish to replace their gold cards early?
- Postbank maintains records of all card expiry details against individual beneficiaries. All beneficiaries will be notified of a staggered approach to be implemented when the SASSA card replacement commences.
- The Postbank team has prepared a SASSA Card Replacement Distribution Plan. This will serve as a framework upon which the replacement program roll-out will be undertaken
- The SASSA Card Replacement Distribution Plan seeks to mitigate ...
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What (a) are the reasons that there has been a delay in the filling of the vacancy of the director-general in her department and (b) time frames have been put in place in this regard?
(a)The delays were occasioned by a number of reasons, including the finalisation of the organisational structure, the national macro organisation of the state process which resulted in the transfer of function from the Department of Social Development e.g. the transfer of disability and early childhood development as well as the change management readiness survey.
(b) Plans are underway to fill the position in the ...
Considering that when the COVID‐19 Social Relief of Distress grant expires in the 2023-24 financial year, there will be a reduction in the total number of grant beneficiaries from an estimated 26,6 million in the 2022-23 financial year to 19,6 million in the 2025-26 financial year, leaving approximately seven million persons without any form of income and/or support from the State, what are the full, relevant details of the alternatives that will be put in place to ensure that the State will not be creating a large-scale hunger crisis?
Cash transfers are effective in addressing negative coping strategies such as poor diets or debts. The distribution of cash allowances boosts the local economy especially on market days. Cash can link with existing social protection systems or build the blocks for future longer-term assistance from the outset. Cash transfer programmes such as the R350 SRD grant have been shown to have many benefits, including reducing dire ...
Considering that, according to the Estimates of National Expenditure 2023 shared by the National Treasury, her department intends to strengthen community engagements in 34 districts over the medium term by implementing the Community Mobilisation and Empowerment Framework, which promotes the use of household and community profiling to inform service and support provision and furthermore aims to link 2% of grant recipients with sustainable livelihood opportunities, (a) how did her department reach the 2% target and (b) what are the detailed reasons that the specified figure is so low, considering that there are almost 27 million grant recipients?
a) The department of social development through SASSA provide grants to most vulnerable individuals in our country. There are different types of grants that are provided to vulnerable and poor individuals. In 2018/19 financial year the department planned to link abled bodied and young beneficiaries of child support grants (mothers of the children receiving grants) at the time of planning there were over 11million ...
(1)In each year since 1 January 2019 up to the latest date for which information is available, what was the total number of child-headed households (a) in each province and (b) nationally;
(2) what is the (a) distribution for each age group in child-headed households and (b) average time that each age group has been part of a child-headed household (i) in each province and (ii) nationally;
(3) (a) how does her department track and/or monitor child-headed households and (b) what programmes and/or assistance does her department offer to child headed households (i) in each province and (ii) nationally;
(4) what are the detailed reasons that children end up in child-headed households?
Responses were received from 5 provinces namely Western Cape, Northern Cape; Free State, Eastern Cape and Gauteng. The responses to the questions posed are presented in a tabular form below, presenting provincial and national response.
1. The total number of child-headed households (a) in each province and (b) nationally;
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(1)What are the details of the processes that were followed in the awarding a threeyear security contract worth R61m to three companies by her department in Limpopo;
(2) Whether there were any declarations made of matrimonially connected directors; if not, what is the position in this regard; if so, what the relevant details;
(3) Whether any conflict of interest was declared; if not, why not; if so, what are the relevant details?
1. The department advertised bid for provision of physical security services at various facilities of the Department of Social Development in five (5) districts for a period of thirty-six (36) months. The bid was advertised in the Government tender bulletin, Departmental website and National Treasury on the 16th of September 2022 and closed on the 14 October 2022.
One hundred and ninety-eight ...
What number of (a) persons and (b) households that receive a social grant have been linked to (i) permanent and/or (ii) temporary economic and employment opportunities through her department since 1 January 2019 in each province?
The department developed a framework for linking social grant beneficiaries to sustainable livelihoods and economic opportunities in provinces through sustainable livelihoods programmes.
a) (i) (ii).The department has linked 49 449 persons that receive a social grant to economic and employment opportunities. The linking data is not disaggregated according to the permanent or temporary opportunities but only economic or sustainable livelihoods opportunities. Since 1 January ...
(1)What are the details of the (a) destination and (b) total costs for (i) accommodation, (ii) travel and (iii) any other costs incurred for international travel of each (aa) Minister and (bb) Deputy Minister of her department since 1 June 2019;
(2) what is the total cost incurred for domestic air travel for each (a) Minister and (b) Deputy Minister of her department since 1 June 2019?
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16th international inter-ministerial conference on South Africa cooperation in Pop Dev
30 August – 05 September 2019
Tunis, Tunisia
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R 14 594.63
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R 31 300.00
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R 13 353.15
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The Nairobi Summit on the International Conference on Development (ICPD25)
10 -14 November 2019
Nairobi, Kenya
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R 43 995.94 ... |
(1)Whether the implementation of the queue management system has been effective in light of the long queues that persist even though millions of Rand were spent on the specified system; if not, what is the position in this regard; if so, what are the relevant details;
(2) what total amount will it cost to implement the specified system in the whole Republic?
1) The queue management project team is currently at the follow-up and evaluation stage of the project, post GO-LIVE. During this stage, the team is performing ongoing monitoring and system performance evaluation to provide support, additional training, and adjustments to local offices who have implemented the queue management system. This process will allow the team to establish the baseline in terms of current waiting ...
