The Free State Province has 5 shelters for gender based violence and 1 safe house (white door). Their bed capacity and funding is detailed below:
NAME OF THE SHELTER |
TOWN |
BED CAPACITY |
FUNDING OVER 5 YEARS |
COMMENTS |
Goldfields Family Advice Organization |
Welkom |
16 |
R 1 927 242 |
Funded over 4 years |
Phelononofa Shelter |
Bothaville |
28 |
R 3 183 783 |
Funded over 4 years |
Wepener Shelter(Child Welfare SA) |
Wepener |
10 |
R 3 641 978 |
Funded over 3 years |
Child Welfare SA (shelter) |
Bethlehem |
8 |
R 1 878 939 |
Funded over 4 years |
Thusanang Advice Centre |
QwaQwa |
10 |
R 2 375 363 |
Funded over 5 years |
NAME OF THE SHELTER |
TOWN |
BED CAPACITY |
FUNDING OVER 5 YEARS |
COMMENTS |
Tumahole Victim Support shelter |
Parys |
10 |
R 8 28927 |
Funded over 3 years and a quarter due to non-compliance they could not be funded for the remaining 3 quarters |
WHITE DOOR |
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NAME OF THE SHELTER |
TOWN |
BED CAPACITY |
FUNDING OVER 5 YEARS |
COMMENTS |
Reaphela Safe House |
Bloemfontein |
10 |
R1 336 404 |
Provides safety for 72 hours yet there cases when victims stays longer |
Total |
6 |
81 |
R 14343 709 |
Western Cape
(a) The Western Cape Department of Social Development has zero government-run night shelters
(b) Western Cape Social Development subsidize 2031 bed spaces to 32 NPO Homeless shelters.
(c) 20/21 – R26, 156 million
19/20 – R20, 205 million
18/19 – R19, 397 million
17/18 – R18, 621 million
16/17 – R17, 876 million
Northern Cape
a) There are no Government-run night Shelters in the Northern Cape Province.
The focus is on locating families of persons on the street and focussing on family re-unification programs.
Children on the street are assisted as prescribed in the Children’s Act 37 of 2005, Chapter 9
b) Not applicable
c) Not applicable
Gauteng
The Gauteng Department of Social Development does not have Government run ‘Night Shelters’. However, the Department provides NPO funding and monitors Shelters for Homeless and Shelters for Women that operates 24 hours and is not specifically a ‘Night Shelter’.
Limpopo
(a) There are two shelters one run by government and one privately run
b) Huis Maroela in Phalaborwa with a bed capacity of 10 and Khuseleka One Stop Centre in
Polokwane with a bed capacity of 40.
c)
Funding allocation in the past 5 years |
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2015/16 |
2016/17 |
2017/18 |
2018/19 |
2019/20 |
R 4 800 000 |
R 7 746 000 |
R3 718 000 |
R4 947 000 |
R4 467 000 |
Huis Maroela |
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R 317 500 |
R 317 500 |
R317 500 |
R317 500 |
R317 500 |
North West
(b) Bed space capacity
State-run = 40
NPO-run = 30
(c) Government funding allocation for the past five financial years?
2016/17 : 10 130 000 (24 centres)
2017/18 : 10 869 000 (22 centres)
2018/19 : 12 488 955 (22 centres)
2019/20 : 18 094 000 (20)
2020/21: 18 656 000 (20)
Eastern Cape
a) The total number of shelters,
Currently there are 4 shelters for homeless people that are still operational in the province which are located in Buffalo City Metro, Sarah Baartman and Nelson Mandela Metro. This number has dropped from a total of 42 shelters across the province during the Level 5 Covid 19 Lockdown.
b) Bed space capacity
The total bed capacity of the current shelters is 171.
c) Government funding allocation for the past five financial years?
There was no government funding during the past 5 years as all shelters for homeless people were established during the Covid 19 Lockdown which came into effect during the 2020/21 financial year. Shelters were established to accommodate homeless people and assist them to comply with the Lockdown Regulations.