Question NW282 to the Minister of Social Development

Reply:

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
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
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
R 317 500	R 317 500	R317 500	R317 500	R317 500

North West

1. There are two (2) shelters in the province of which one (1) is state run and the other is NPO run.

(b) Bed space capacity

State-run = 40

NPO-run = 30

(c) Government funding allocation for the past five financial years?

• State – run = The state-run was taken over from NPO management in 2019 and received R1 900 000 for operational cost and R 5.7m. Prior to 2019 the facility was run by an NPO for

• NPO-run = For the past five years, the NPO received a funding of, R900 000 for 2016/17, R870 000 for 2017/18, R1 000 000 for 2018/19 and R 1 200 000 for 2019/20 R1 300 000 for 2020/21 for rendering the Victim Support Services.

• Funded NPO-run crisis centres

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.