Questions and Replies

Reply:

(a) The National Department of Social Development had 59 vacancies as at 31 March 2021.

(b)(i) The National Development Agency, 14 vacancies, and

(b)(ii) The South African Social Security Agency had 410 vacancies.

Reply:

1.       As at the end of May 2022 the following were grants in payment:

Grant Type	Number of Beneficiaries
Old Age	1287
Disability	362
Child Support	1460

2. ​ The Region has one office in the Kamiesberg Local Municipal area i.e Garies Local office, servicing all towns in the Local Municipal Area (LMA).

Outreach services are rendered by the Garies Local office on a monthly basis to the different towns in the LMA:

Town	Old Age	Disability	Child support
Rooifontein/Kamassies	63	33	111
Nourivier	82	14	81
Leliefontein	99	12	112
Paulshoek	37	10	13
Kamieskroon	129	44	183
Kharkams	180	49	239
Tweerivier	7	5	3
Koiingnaas	19	5	2
Kheis	67	11	2
Soebatsfontein	45	17	47
Spoegrivier	52	3	5
Klipfontein	60	8	7
Garies	350	114	521
Hondeklipbaai	59	23	89
Lepelfontein	38	14	45
Total	1287	362	1460

Reply:

1)  (i) and (b) i SASSA owned properties per Region and Values:

  Limpopo Region

Office Name	Property Value
Bela-Bela	R   4 200 000,00
Hlanganani	R      850 000,00
Jane Furse	R 24 720 575,00
Leeufontein	R   7 290 250,00
Lulekani	R      596 475,00
Makwarela	R 24 720 575,00
Manganeng	R   7 290 250,00
Mankweng	R   5 700 000,00
Maraba	R   7 290 250,00
Modimolle	R 24 720 575,00
Musina	R   7 290 250,00
Nkowankowa	R      662 750,00
Senwamokgope local office	R   1 060 400,00
Thabazimbi	R 24 720 575,00
Tzaneen	R 24 720 575,00
Zebedieala	R   5 302 000,00
Total	R 171,135,500.00

 

Northern Cape Region

Office Name	Property Value
Churchill local office	R  3,226,811.28 – estimate construction costs
Dithakong local office	R  3,226,811.28 – estimate construction costs
Total	R 6,453622.56

Reply:

1. (a) The Department of Public Works and Transport – Western Cape has informed, SASSA Western Cape that they will be undertaking renovation on the state owned building. 

Previously when the first phase of maintenance was implemented, the office was temporarily vacated and relocated to the Women in Action office in Eerste Rivier.

Currently SASSA has signed a lease agreement for a site in Khayelitsha known as Bikitsha. Services will be rendered from this site.

SASSA is further engaging with the City of Cape Town for the rental of the Violence Prevention through Urban Upgrading (VPUU) programme sites that have already been renovated and are fit for occupation in Harare; Khayelitsha Resource Centre, Kuyasa Library and City of Cape Town halls. These sites will enable the services to remain in Khayelithsa.

SASSA has contacted the Sub Council 10 to assist with identifying alternative accommodation, and engagements with VPUU management are being made to with them before end of June 2022.

The Bikitsha site was a planned additional site for services to be delivered in Khayelitsha

SASSA will incur costs for the following:

1. Cost of Temporary Accommodation
2. Cost of Transportation of SASSA assets from current office to new site or storage
3. Cost for labourers
4. Storage costs
5.  Cost of lease / rental of furniture and equipment to be used at alternative site.
6. Additional hire costs for Cleaning and Security
   
   -The City of Cape Town still needs to advise SASSA on the cost implications of the VPUU site and the other municipal venues

Reply:

​(1)      (a) Postbank Officials

As part of the recruitment and selection process within Postbank, all candidates are vetted before making appointment. This practice is in alignment with Postbank’s HR Recruitment and Selection policy. The vetting of candidates includes:

1) Criminal checks,

2) Credit checks,

3) Qualification verifications,

4) ID checks,

5) SA Citizenship checks

 (b) Contractors

      Postbank has two types of contractors:

• Fixed-term contractors : These contractors undergo the same Recruitment and Selection process described in (1)(a) above
• Contractors provided by Service Provider : All Postbank Service Provider contracts includes a standard clause stating that contractors must be security vetted and approved before working on Postbank IT systems.
   

(2)      A formal criminal case was opened soon after discovery of the incident. The case was opened with the Specialised unit of the Organised Crime unit of the SAPS. The case is currently being investigated by the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation (DPCI/Hawks). Over 600 pages of information gathered by the Postbank internal investigation unit was handed over to the Hawks.

The Hawks criminal investigation is currently ongoing and includes all leads available. Postbank is cooperating fully with the investigators to try and apprehend the suspects. Postbank has a zero tolerance to any fraud or theft and will act against any staff member or any other party found guilty to the full extent of the law.
 

No specific Postbank, SAPO or SASSA staff member is separately investigated. However, all staff that were close to the environment where the incident took place are treated as suspects and are included in the list of staff being investigated by the Hawks. No arrest have been made at this point in time

Reply:

1. The National Department had only 6 bids not awarded and not 44 as indicated.

The details of the 6 bids are as follows:

Nr	Programme	Description	Amount	Bid	Date	Reasons
1.	Integrated Anti-Substance Abuse	Amendment of Act 70 of 2008 Bill	R 1 200 000	Open bids	May-21	The employment contract for the end-user who of this project expired, as such the project was delayed.
2.	Supply Chain Management	Asset Management Outsourcing	R 5 000 000	Open bids	May-21	Postponed for the next financial year. The project is included in the 2022/23 annual procurement plan.
3.	Office of Director-General	Service provider to audit, review, and develop systems for the entity Government and Oversight	R 10 000 000	Open bids	Apr-21	The project was removed from the procurement plan.
4.	Population and Development	Youth Perception Study on the Socio-Economic, Health, and Gender Impact of COVID-19	R 1 472 000	Open bids	May-21	End-user did not submit to SCM.
5.	Information Technology	Procurement for the installation, configuration, maintenance, and support for an artificial intelligence intrusion detection and prevention solution.	R 1 450 000	Open bids	Apr-21	Cancelled and will not be done in 2021.
6.	Information Technology	Acquisition of a digital signage system for the HSRC.	R 2 500 000	Open bids	Apr-21	Business case was not supported.

2.

(a) & (b)

The 6 bids indicated above did not result in any irregular expenditure. Bids not awarded in the previous financial year and still required by the Department are carried over to the current financial year.

Reply:

Background

The NDA provide grant funding and capacity building interventions to CSOs. These interventions are to ensure that CSOs projects have impact to the communities they are serving.

a) In the 2021-2022 financial year, the NDA supported and funded 414 CSOs projects covering all nine provinces.

b) The NDA programmes implemented in the 2021-2022 financial year were in the following programmatic areas:

(i) Grant funding programme which provides grants to CSOs for funding their projects in food security, garment making including school uniforms, animal production including poultry and piggery, bricks making, tea production, bakery, Early childhood development and social services. This programmes links CSOs products to various markets to ensure that they achieve levels of development that can sustain themselves in the medium to long term.

(ii) Capacity Building programme provides skills development through training, mentoring and support to their institutional capacities and technical skills to better manage the CSOs and produce quality products for different markets. of CSOs across all districts and local municipalities in nine provinces.

(iii) DSD/ CARA Victim Empowerment Programme: The programme is funded through the Criminal Asset Recovery Account (CARA). The overall purpose of the programme is to identify; partner and empower, through grant funding, CSOs in the nine (9) Provinces. Over 300 CSOs have been funded to provide the following services to victims of crime and abuse:

• Family strengthening - to increase family strengths, enhance child development, and reduce the likelihood of child abuse and neglect.
• Social crime prevention - focusing on the structural drivers of gender based violence.
• Social behaviour changes programs - focusing on boys and men.
• Welfare services - focusing on social protection, maximization of human potential and fostering self-reliance and participation in decision-making.

(iv) Venture Creation Programme: This is a skills development and workplace placement intervention funded by the Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF). The programme recruited 2000 young people to participate in the programme with the aim of training them, place them in work environment and organise them into Co-operatives to use the skills in starting new business ventures for improving their livelihoods and economic participation. They are paid R2 000.00 stipends every month whilst enrolled in the programme for 12 months.

(v) Resource Mobilisation mobilisation programe: this programme seeks to mobilise resources outside the NDA allocation to fund and support CSOs interventions so as to achieve sustainable financial resources. In the 2021/22 financial year, the NDA raised R47 million towards this programme from government and private sectors.

c) The number of employment opportunities created during the financial year through the grant funding programme was 546.

Reply:

A temporary disability grant is given for a specific period, informed by the medical assessment. At the end of that period, the grant lapses and the citizen has to re-apply for the grant, should he/she feel he/she is still unable to work as a result of the impact of the medical condition or disability. If the citizen does not return to SASSA after the grant has lapsed, it is assumed that the condition has improved, to the extent that he/she can compete in the open labour market and no longer requires a grant.

There are currently no outstanding temporary disability grants awaiting finalisation.

However, the table below indicates the numbers of applicants booked for medical assessments for disability grants. It is only once the assessment has been done that it will be known whether the grant is awarded as a temporary or permanent disability grant, as this classification is determined by the presenting medical condition. A temporary disability grant is awarded where there is a likelihood that the medical condition or disability is not likely to present for a period of longer than twelve (12) months.

Clients Awaiting To Be Medically Assessed for a Disability Grant
Region	Upcoming Assessment*
WESTERN CAPE	8 049
EASTERN CAPE	958
KWAZULU NATAL	4 461
LIMPOPO	2 657
NORTHERN CAPE	773
FREE STATE	1 427
GAUTENG	6 737
NORTH WEST	2 243
MPUMALANGA	2 653
TOTAL	29 958
Schedule for the period until the month of June 2022

Reply:

(1) Homelessness is a cross cutting issue which requires a collaborative effort in addressing it. The department of Social Development is amongst the  key departments that are relevant in dealing with Homelessness. The department of social development's role is to provide psychosocial support services, reunification and reintegration programmes to the homelessness. the department further provide alternative care to those children and older person in terms of both the Children's Act 38 of 2005 and the Older Persons' Act 13 of 2006 to those eligible. Currently it is not clear which department is mandated to take a lead in this regard, however the department took an initiative to lead the development of the Policy for Homeless, to this end the department is in a process of finalising the rapid assessment and a diagnostic study on homeless which will be used as a basis for the development of the Policy. The aim of the study is to understand the nature and extent of the problem,  what interventions are available; and the existing policy gaps.  

(2).  Once the department working jointly with other key departments has concluded all the processes which amongst include broad consultation with key stakeholder, presentation to different  cluster departments and holding bi-laterals with the critical departments that have to directly implement the Policy, the Policy will be presented to Cabinet for consideration for approval. 

(3).  Currently there is no national policy on homelessness but each province has put various systems and interventions in place to address the plight of homeless people in their respective provinces.  For example, Gauteng and Western Cape have dedicated shelters and budget to address homelessness.  They also have guidelines and norms and standards for the operation of those shelters.  However, other provinces do not have dedicated shelters and budget, but have repurposed other existing structures in order to address the issues of homeless people.  Provinces are working closely with other key stakeholders such as COGTA, SALGA, SAPS, Home Affairs, Human Settlement, and Health, in order to provide comprehensive integrated services to the homeless. 

Reply:

Eastern Cape Province

a) & b) The Eastern Cape Department of Social Development (DSD) did not experience a budget cut for the 2022/23 financial year and 2022 MTEF period other than the budget cuts that were implemented in the 2021 MTEF period.

The budget for the Department was however reduced because of the ECD function shift from DSD to the Department of Education (DOE).

Free State Province

a) Amount of budget cuts experienced in the Free State Province

From the final allocation for the 2020/21 financial year to the main allocation for 2021/22, the departmental budget for the FS DSD decreased by R 77.196 million.

The cuts were mainly on the Compensation of Employees as a result of the freezing of annual salary adjustments over the MTEF.

From the Main Allocation to the Final Allocation (during the Adjustment Budget) the department received:

• R 37.336 million as a roll-over of the ECD Conditional Grant;
• R 31.692 million for gratuities paid to officials on levels 1-12;
• R 12 million for appointment of social workers;
• R 10.702 in respect of the ECD Stimulus;
• R 4.2 million towards the ENGO Payment

b) Decrease/increase ease per programme as well as final appropriation:

 

 

Gauteng Province

a) The baseline allocation for the Gauteng Department of Social Development was reduced by R 614,545 million in the 2022/23 financial year due to the ECD function shift, centralisation of the ICT budget to the Department of e-Government, infrastructure cut, and fiscal consolidation reduction.

Table 1: Baseline Reduction - 2022/23 Financial Year

ITEM	2022/23 R’000
ECD Function Shift	591 278
ICT Budge Centralisation (Department of e-Government)	7 533
Infrastructure	12 100
Cuts from Provincial Treasury (Fiscal consolidation)	3 634
TOTAL	614 545

b) Each programme received the following:

Table 2: Baseline Reduction per Programme - 2022/23 Financial Year

Programme	Amount R’000
Administration	15 023
Social Welfare Services	0
Children & Families	542 414
Restorative Services	12 100
Development & Research	45 008
TOTAL	614 545

KwaZulu-Natal Province

a) The budget cuts experienced by KwaZulu-Natal DSD were R 322, 909 million for 2021/2022 and R 427, 238 million for 2022/2023 financial years.

b) Each programme received the following budget cuts:

Programme	2021/22 R’000	2022/23 R’000
Administration	45,779	52,278
Social Welfare Services	59,332	81,696
Children and Families	172,798	231,264
Restorative Services	20,000	29,000
Development and Research	25,000	33,000
Total	322,909	427,238

Limpopo Province

a) R 482 686 million

b) Program 1: Administration – R 80,788 million

Program 2: Social Welfare Services - R 74,649 million

Program 3: Children and families – R 225,563 million

Program 4: Restorative Services – R 56,469 million

Program 5: Development and Research –

R 45,217 million

Mpumalanga Province

a) There were no budgets cut to any of the programmes made by the National Department for the 2021/22 financial year. The departmental overall budget was reduced in the 2022/23 financial year following the ECD function shift to the Department of Education See the breakdown of the allocated budget from National to Province below:

Programme	2021/22	2022/23
Administration	R 334 631 000	R 411,885,000
Social Welfare Services	R 298 595 000	R 291 548 000
Children and Families	R 811 255 000	R 482 218 000
Restorative Services	R 209 532 000	R234 935 000
Development and Research	R 199 666 000	R 195 644 000
TOTAL	R 1,853 679 000	R 1,840,989,000

b) An amount of R 80.0 million was cut from the budget allocation of the Department at the provincial level during the budget adjustment of the 2021/22 financial year. This amount was cut from the budget allocation for new social infrastructure projects.

Northwest Province

The budget reduction implemented in 2021/22 financial was R 228.4 million and in 2022/23

R 311.5 million and a further transfer of ECD function to the Department of Education amounting to R 192 million.

Budget reduction per program.

Allocation per program for 2022/23

PROGRAM	2022/23
Administration	227 079
Social Welfare Services	587 476
Children and Families	345 313
Restorative Services	303 840
Development and Research	190 684
Total for Programmes	1 654 392

Northern Cape Province

a) & b)

The Department received a budget cut on the EPWP allocation from R 9,3 million to R 5,2 million. The reduction was mostly in Programme 5.

Western Cape

a) The Western Cape DSD has the following budget cuts for the 2022/23 financial year.

Programmes	(R’000)
Administration	1,658
Social Welfare Services	21,213
Children and Families	(351,604)
Restorative Services	4,629
Development and Research	30,884
Total	(293,220)

The department allocation for 2022/23 was reduced by R 391.531 million for the Early Childhood Development (ECD) function shift from Vote 7: Social Development to Vote 5: Education.

The department reprioritised allocations to mitigate budget shortfalls as follows:

Compensation of Employees (CoE)

The department received an additional R 40 million to provide for the 2022/23 Wage agreement. However, the additional funding will not cover the department’s CoE budget requirements and therefore, the department had to reduce its Recruitment Plan (Filling of vacant posts) by R 25 million to cover the shortfall. This compromise will hamper the filling of critical posts and effective service delivery.

Goods and Services

The departments received an additional R 1 million for digitizing the Non-profit organisation management systems (NPOMS) and R 1 million for the development of a Mobile Client Service System to support Social Workers to deliver more efficient services.

Considering baseline budget reductions, the department implemented additional budget cuts.

• No new staff bursaries can be awarded
• Training budget was reduced
• Maintenance of offices and facilities was reduced
• Austerity measures for Stationery, printing, and office supplies

Transfer Payments and Subsidy Payments

• Non-Profit Institutions

The departments received an additional,

• • R 4.978 million for the Social Sector EPWP Incentive Grant for Provinces.
  • R 3 million for the conversion of Robbie Nurock community health centre into a homeless shelter.
  • R 21.333 for Social Development - Welfare NGOs

The impact of baseline budget reductions will have the following consequences

• • Reductions to payments for Older Persons will lead to the termination of all transport costs to service centres; 14 non-compliant service centres will not be funded, and termination of awareness programmes in old age homes.
  • The reduction of payments to the disabled will lead to a reduction in disability training and awareness programmes. Funds to Disability Forums will be reduced.
  • Funding will have to be reduced to all 33 shelters. There will be a reduction in funding of 40 Families Social Service Organisations’. This will lead to no parent, teenage, father /boys programme can continue in any of the Safety Hotspot areas and placing Families at higher risk.
  • Fewer practitioners in Substance Abuse NPO's will be trained. Reduction in early intervention services. Reduction of 80 youth beds. The reduction of bed space across the other Substance Abuse Centres. Reduction in aftercare services rendered by the NPO sector and more pressure on DSD to render aftercare services. Impact on operational cost and a decrease in student intake for universities
  • Reduction in EPWP Programme
  • Reduction in project budgets for Youth Cafés. No expansion of Youth Cafes.
• Households

No new External Bursaries can be awarded

Capital Assets.

The department received an additional R2 million to enable Mobile connectivity. However, the procurement of IT equipment was reduced and thus affecting the departmental Technology Refresh.

Programme 1: Administration

• • The reduction in COE severely impacted service delivery monitoring and performance of administrative duties.
  • IT refresh was scaled down.

Programme 2: Social Welfare Services

• • The reduction in COE resulted in the downscaling of services and outputs within the department.
  • 2021/22 Adjusted Budget for transfer payments was maintained, thus no increases in post-funding, subsidies, and programmes funding. This resulted in downscaling of services within the NGO sector. Certain service offerings were suspended or terminated.

Programme 3: Children and Families

• Reduction in CoE severely impacts services offered by the department.
• The allocation for 2022/23 was reduced by

R 391.531 million for the Early Childhood Development (ECD) function shift from Vote 7: Social Development to Vote 5: Education.

Programme 4: Restorative Services

• The reduction in CoE severely impacted services offered at facilities. Norms and standards ratio for a child vs care worker was not met and increased absenteeism.
• 2021/22 Adjusted Budget for transfer payments was maintained, thus no increases in post-funding, subsidies, and programmes funding. This resulted in downscaling of services within the NGO sector. Certain service offerings were suspended or terminated.

Programme 5: Restorative Services

• The reduction in CoE severely impacted services offered by the Department.
• Ability to respond to disasters and humanitarian relief was severely impacted. There was limited ability to address food insecurity where SASSA didn't have additional funding.

Reply:

REPLY: EASTERN CAPE

a) The Eastern Cape Department of Social Development is currently having a challenge on increasing subsidies due to shrinking fiscus however the Department has started a multi-year funding approach towards NPOs during 2022/2023 Financial Year.

b) The Department has increased subsidies to Child and Youth Care Centres from R2000 to R4000 from 2019/2020 Financial Year from the allocation that was in line with National Department of Social Development directive in order to comply with the National Association of Welfare Organisations and Non-Governmental Organisations judgment.

REPLY: FREE STATE

a) The Free State Department of Social Development relies solely on allocations from Treasury. On specific priority programmes earmarked funds are allocated.

Over the 2022 MTEF period, the Free State Department of Social Development has increased budget allocations towards NPO’s in the different programmes as follows:

Programme	2022/23	2023/24	2024/25
Social Welfare Services	5%	7%	17%
Children and Families ***	-217%	13%	11%
Restorative Services	3%	0%	0%

• The decrease under Children and Families in 2022/23 is due to the migration of Early Childhood Development to the Department of Basic Education.

• The focus of the department is on Children, Older Persons and Persons with Disabilities.

• For most part, in terms of priority areas, increases are above CPI inflation of 4.2 percent (2022/23), 4.3 percent (2023/24) and 4.5 percent (2024/25) respectively.

b) With regards to the steps taken by the Free State Department of Social Development to comply with the National Association of Welfare Organisations and Non-Governmental Organisations judgment, the Department received budget from the Provincial and National Treasury. This allocation was utilised towards increase on Child and Youth Care centres which is a top priority service.

The budget benefited 1 120 children at a R4 000 allocation per child per month. This demonstrates the Departments’ intention for progressive realization of the rights of vulnerable service beneficiaries in line with the court judgement.

Below is the budget allocation towards that purpose:

Source of funding	2020	2021	2022
Provincial Treasury	R10 000 000	R11 000 000	R12 000 000
National Treasury	R12 547 000	R13 237 000	R25 135 000

REPLY: GAUTENG

a) Gauteng DSD has ensured that any NPI budget increment received from Provincial Treasury is allocated to the NPO sector as subsidy increases to keep up with inflation. Therefore, Gauteng DSD has been implementing inflationary increases for the past five years ranging from 3% to 6% on an annual basis.

b) In terms of the steps that the Gauteng DSD has taken since 2020 to comply with the National Association of Welfare Organisations and Non-Governmental Organisations judgment, the Department has substantially increased the subsidy rates of Child and Youth Care Centres (CYCCs) from the 2019/20 financial year with the additional financial resources that were received from the National Treasury.

Thereafter, the Department made annual inflationary increases to the baseline of the 2019/20 financial year to keep up with inflation. In addition, the Department provided each CYCC with additional funding for the appointment of a social worker or auxiliary social worker over and above the capita subsidy rate.

REPLY: KWA-ZULU NATAL

a) The Kwa Zulu-Natal Province received an additional allocation from Treasury during the 2022/23 MTEF which has enabled the Department to give Non-Profit Organisation (NGOs) and increase of 5% to keep up with the cost of living.

b) The KwaZulu-Natal Province has been increased funding of R4000.00 per child per month since 2019/2020 financial year for CYCCs.

REPLY: LIMPOPO

a) Due to budget cut that the department encountered, no increases were effected on subsidies to NPOs, however, as, and when there are savings the department does consider NPOs rendering programmes for increment.

b) With regards to steps taken to comply with the NAWONGO Court judgement, the department has increased the monthly subsidy of CYCC from R2 500 to R4 000 per child per month following the NAWONGO judgement. Within the current financial year (2022-23) the subsidy has increased from R4000 to R4500.

REPLY: MPUMALANGA

a) The Mpumalanga province has submitted a budget request to Provincial Treasury, and an additional R16,6 million was allocated to Transfers during 2022/23.

Noting that the subsidies for social worker posts was last increased during 2013/14, these funds have been earmarked to increase the funding of social work posts.

This has translated into the following increases:

Occupational Category	2021/22 Monthly subsidy	2022/23 Monthly subsidy
Social Worker	R9 056	R16 000
Senior Social Worker	R11 247	R19 000

Due to the limited budget allocation, only organisations employing social workers will benefit from this current increase. Increases could also not be provided to other occupational categories, however these will be prioritised in the outer years, should additional allocation be made available by the Provincial Treasury.

b) During 2019/20, the department increased the unit cost per child per month (through a special allocation received from National Treasury) from R2500 to R3900 per child per month.

In 2020/21 the subsidy was further increased from R3900 to R4000 per child per month.

In 2021/22 the subsidy was increased for children with special needs from R4000 to R4500 per child per month.

In 2021/22 the province further provided additional funding to Child and Youth Care Centres to employ Social Workers as a response to the NAWONGO Court Judgement.

REPLY: NORTH WEST

(a)(b)

Response from North West not yet received at time of submission.

 

REPLY: NORTHERN CAPE

(a)(b)

Increases were given for subsidies to all NGO’s within the allocated budget, as indicated below.

In addition to the increases in subsidy of 5%, the increase for running cost was also included.

SUBSIDISED CATEGORY	2020/21	2021/22	2022/23
Social Workers	R13 525.18	R14 201.43	R14 911.50
Social Auxiliary Workers	R6 973.10	R7 321.75	R7 687.83
Community Development Workers	R6 655.97	R6 988.76	R7 338.19
Child and Youth Care Workers	R3 500.00	R4 100.00	R4 305.00
Children in CYCC’s	R4 150.00	R4 375.50	R4 480.00

REPLY: WESTERN CAPE

a) Budget restrictions has limited the initiatives by the Western Cape Department of Social Development to increase funding to NGOs. Budgets have unfortunately been cut across various programmes and funding has been sustained for the Victim Empowerment Programme and NGO CYCCs.

b) With regards to steps taken to comply with the NAWONGO Court judgement, the Western Cape Department of Social Development experienced budget constraints, thus limited effect could be given to the Court judgement. However, with NGO CYCCs an all-inclusive unitary fee was introduced since April 2022. All NGO CYCCs are now funded on the same fee structure.

Reply:

(a) Total number of officials	(b) (i) Permanent officials	(ii)Contract official
733	699	34

Reply:

The Revised Guideline was approved by Departmental Management Committee in May 2021 and has been implemented since the 2021/22 financial year. The Guidelines is attached as an Annexure to this reply.

The Guideline were not updated over the years because there were no major revisions to the legislation and framework which inform management of performance information in the Public Service. During the period of implementation of this Guideline, DSD complied with all the regulatory requirements for compilation and submission of performance reports to all relevant stakeholders. Among major achievements was the ability of the Department to obtain and maintain an Unqualified Audit Outcome from Auditor General of South Africa on the Usefulness and Reliability of its performance information reported in the annual performance reports for nine consecutive years.

In the 2019 Medium Term Expenditure period, there were several changes and improvements in the management of performance information throughout the Public Service. These changes resulted in DSD having to review their Guidelines between October 2020 to March 2021. Some of the key revisions were the following:

• Expanding of the Chapter on Reporting Requires to elaborate of criteria for assessing performance information, the timelines for submission of performance reports as well as introduction of Departmental Performance Review Sessions.
• Explanation of Reporting Lines (Channels) to various stakeholders.
• Inclusion of a full Chapter on Results Framework to assist in familiarising managers with the various concepts and approaches to planning (setting baselines, targets and defining indicators)
• Inclusion of an annexure on compilation of evidence to support reported performance information

b) How has she found does this impact service delivery?

The Guideline has no direct impact on service delivery as it guides compliance to the regulatory reporting requirements. It however, indirectly contributes to improved service delivery within the context of performance monitoring. The Guideline introduced quarterly Departmental Performance Review sessions, where progress is assessed to ensure that set targets in the Annual Performance Plan are achieved. Achievement of set targets in the Annual Performance Plan leads to attainment of service delivery objectives.

Background and context of the Guideline for Performance Monitoring and Reporting

The Department developed its Guideline for Performance Monitoring and Reporting in 2012 to ensure that it complies with all requisite legal prescripts and to improve systems and processes required to manage performance information. The Guideline has been used as a Standard Operating Procedure for managing performance information in the Department.

The purpose of the Guideline is to:

• Set the standard for managing performance information in line with relevant legal prescripts and requirements;
• Outline the roles and responsibilities of line managers and other management structures with regard to the generation and management of credible performance information;
• Establish a common understanding of the role that Monitoring and Evaluation plays in managing and reporting performance information in line with the pieces of relevant policies and frameworks within the DSD; and,
• Familiarise staff with the terminology used by different practitioners in various contexts regarding monitoring, evaluation and reporting.

The DSD Guidelines were informed by, among others, the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, the Public Finance Management Act, the National Treasury Regulations, Public Service Act, 1994 as amended and Public Service Regulations. In addition, the Guideline is further informed by regular Frameworks, Instruction Notes, Circulars and Guidelines issued National Treasury (NT) together with the Department of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation (DPME), which gives effect to the above legislation.

Reply:

The need for social service professionals is identified in the National Development Plan and other key policy documents such as the HWSETA skills sector plan. According to the NDP, the ranks of social services professionals should be boosted to 55 000 to meet the demand for appropriate basic social welfare services. This is because social welfare services are becoming more development orientated, focusing on serving vulnerable people in families and in communities.

As a category of social service professionals, social workers are located across Provinces and District offices, where they render an integrated basket across the life stages of beneficiaries, which are prevention and promotion, early intervention, psychosocial care, and support, statutory and protection, re-integration and aftercare services.

Currently we have 17503 social service professionals who render a range of services.

For the Department to perform the integrated basket of services across the life stages, it will require the total number of social workers and social auxiliary workers, which are reflected in the below table:

Legislation & Policies	Social Workers	Social Auxiliary workers	Total
Children’s Act & Children’s Amendment Bill	6, 575	3, 113	9, 688
Older Persons Act	298	87	385
Prevention and Treatment of Substance Abuse	517	94	611
Probation Services Act	547	153	700
Victim Empowerment Bill (Act)	1040	58	1098
Policy for Disabilities	227	83	310
Prevention, Care and Support for HIV and Aids	502	112	614
White Paper for Families	951	309	1260
Total	10, 657	4, 009	14, 666

Reply:

1(a)  total number of non-profit organisations (NPOs) received increases to their budgets in 2021-22 financial year in each province,

1 (a)	Provincial NPOs	No. of NPO received increases to their budgets in 2021/22
	Eastern Cape	3
	Free State	21 HIV/AIDS 24 VEP
	Gauteng	All funded NPOs received the inflation rate of 4% for the 2021/22 financial year
	Kwa-Zulu Natal	0
	Limpopo	0
	Mpumalanga	17
	North-West	0
	Northern Cape	All funded NPOs received the inflation rate of 5% for the 2021/22 financial year
	Western Cape	247

b) are the names of the NPOs that received increases and

1 (b)	Provincial NPOs	Names of NPO that received increases to their budgets in 2021/22
1.	Eastern Cape	Madeira Home Housing Utility Company ACVV Huis Genot Munro Kirk Home
2.	Free State	HIV & AIDS SUB-PROGRAMME NAME OF ORGANIZATION INCREASED AMOUNT THABO MOFUTSANYANA Clocolan Child Care Forum R12’000 Dihlabeng Development Initiative R12 000 Ficksburg Child Care Forum R12 000 Golden Gate Hospice R11 000 Ikaneng Child Care Forum R10 000 Itemoheng R11 000 Mamafubedu Child Care Forum R12 000 Moemaneng Child Care Forum R12 000 Petsana Child Care Forum R12 941 Senekal Child Care Forum R12 000 Tshwaranang R12 000 SUB-TOTAL R116 000.48 MANGAUNG Botshelo R15 090.00 Fadimehang Home Based Care R35 375.32 My Ride to Ikusasa R30 347.32 Kgauhelo Project R78 374.87 Masakhane Home Based Care R73 692.87 Santa Botshabelo Branch R10 000.00 Tshepong Care Centre R64 896.93 Tswellang R35 374.32 Paballo Home Based Care R30 374.32 Ikgomotseng R25 374.32 SUB-TOTAL R398 899.22 TOTAL R514 899.70 VICTIM EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMME Organisation Increase Lejweleputswa -7 (Seven) Boshof Victim Empowerment R14 200 Khululeka Victim Support R 14 200 Dr Maile Development Center R 8 900, Theunissen Boitelo VEP R 14 200 Tshireletsong VE R 8 900 Winburg VEP R 15 200 SUB-TOTAL = R75 600 Mangaung Metro ( 8)   Free Care in Action R 26 700 Free state Network on Violence against Women R8 900 Mangaung Setshabelo R 8 900 FAMSA R 17 800 Heatherdale Dikonale Dienste R 29 000 Child Welfare BFN Child Line R 9 000 Reya Phela Safe House R 16 799 05 Child Welfare SA Wepener R 16 710 00 SUB-TOTAL = R 133 809 .05 Xhariep( 5)   Women Support Group R 14 240 Bambanani Victim Empowerment R 14 240 Bophelong Victim Empowerment R 14 240 Sivile –Reutlwile Victim Centre R14 240 Kgothalang Victim Center R 14 240 SUB-TOTAL = R 71 200 Thabo Mofutsanyana (2)   Thusanang Advice Shelter R 16 800 Bethlehem Child and Family Welfare –Tshepo ya rona Shelter R 16 854 SUB-TOTAL = R 33 654 Organization Increase Thusanang Advice Shelter R 144 231 94 Goldfields Family Advice Organization R108 698 Total = 2 Organisations R252 929 94 Grand total 24 Organisations R 567 192 .99
3.	Gauteng	Refer to PQ 1484
4.	Kwa-Zulu Natal	N/a
5.	Limpopo	N/a
6.	Mpumalanga	SOS Children’s Village Association to the Republic of SA St John’s Care Centre Ebenezer CYCC Uzwelo Home CYCC SAVF Louis Hildebrandt Kinderhuis Janell Huis CYCC CMR Ermelo CYCC Phephelaphi CYCC Kosmos Kinderhawe Bethesda Home of Hope CYCC Octopus Network Malekutu Development Proframme Brothers Services Community Development Emphilweni Multipurpose Centre Isiphephelo Multipurpose Centre Hlayisekani Nursing Home Barberton Organization for the Care of the Aged
7.	North-West	N/a
8.	Northern Cape	All funded NPOs – refer to PQ 1484
9.	Western Cape	List attached

c) did the increases amount to in total;

1 (c)	Provincial NPOs	Increases amount to in total
1.	Eastern Cape	R672 000
2.	Free State	R1 082 093.00
3.	Gauteng	(4% inflationary rate
4.	Kwa-Zulu Natal	0
5.	Limpopo	0
6.	Mpumalanga	R24 449 444
7.	North-West	0
8.	Northern Cape	R10,7 million
9.	Western Cape	R48,751 million (excludes ECD Conditional grants)

(2) (a) what total number of NPOs had their budgets reduced due to her department taking over and/or now providing the service in each province;

2 (a)	Provincial NPOs	Budgets reduced due to her department taking over
1.	Eastern Cape	51
2.	Free State	None
3.	Gauteng	None
4.	Kwa-Zulu Natal	None
5.	Limpopo	None
6.	Mpumalanga	None
7.	North-West	None
8.	Northern Cape	None
9.	Western Cape	None

(3) whether she will provide Ms L L van der Merwe with a list of the NPO services that are no longer funded due to her department now providing the service in each province; if not, what is the position in this regard; if so, what are the further, relevant details?

3	Provincial NPOs	Increases amount to in total
1.	Eastern Cape	None
2.	Free State	None
3.	Gauteng	None
4.	Kwa-Zulu Natal	None
5.	Limpopo	None
6.	Mpumalanga	None
7.	North-West	None
8.	Northern Cape	None
9.	Western Cape	None

Reply:

(1)The amount of R501 000.00 is budgeted for the establishment of the shelter in the Namaqua district. The Namakhoi Municipality committed to provide the structure and to refurbish the structure and this process is already underway. This amount is for the running cost of the shelter.

(2) The province is in the process of ensuring that there is at least one victim support centre in each district. The only district that does not have a shelter is the Namaqua district. The Department in partnership with the Namakhoi Municipality in Springbok is in the process of establishing a shelter in the district in 2022/23 financial year.

Reply:

a) There is no specific budget allocated for psychosocial support. The psychosocial support budget is included in the overall allocation of the Gender Based Violence (GBV) which amounts to R 8 138 000, 00. This amount includes the provincial as well as district goods and services budgets.

b) An amount of R 1 904 000,00 has been allocated as a transfer allocation to NGO’s for the provision of GBV services. The total budget allocation for GBV services rendered by the Department of Social Development in Northern Cape is therefore R 10 042 000, 00.

Reply:

a) The post was advertised and the preliminary shortlisting process has been finalised. The Department intends to conclude the interviews in the coming weeks, preferably June subject to the availability of all panel members whose diaries we are currently aligning.

(b) Immediately after the interviews are done, a Cabinet Memorandum will be generated and submitted for Cabinet’s concurrence, which is a requirement for all posts at this level.

Reply:

In the KwaZulu-Natal region, there is

(a)(i) One SASSA local office in Chatsworth that was damaged by the floods that services approximately 140 beneficiaries per day (ii) No facility under Social Development was damaged.

(b) The roof of the local office (the building is shared with the Department of Home Affairs) was previously affected by rain damage that resulted in the flooding of the floor space. This had a temporary effect on daily operations. According to the estimates from the Provincial Department of Public Works, the estimated costs for repairing the roof prior to the floods were estimated at R 17,5 million.

(c), (d) and (e) Due to the minimal damage no services at SASSA offices were severely compromised and services to grant applicants are continuing as normal.

Reply:

(1) The South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) has issued 9 520 Social Relief of Distress vouchers between 2022/04/12 and 2022/05/23.

(2) The total value of these vouchers is R16 264 216.

(3)(b) SASSA has not disbursed any food parcels as it has relied solely on the use of vouchers for the purposes of providing Social Relief of Distress. This enables the agency to provide relief in a much more timely manner, and also enables the recipients to select their own relief items from the voucher.

(4) SASSA also provides meals at 72 shelters across the province. Refer to the attached list of shelters for further details.

Reply:

a) i) The purpose of the Annual Youth camp offered by the National Department of Social Development is to:

The purpose of annual Youth Camp is to empower youth by providing them with necessary employment, entrepreneurial and lifeskills. The Department provide these these interventions through partnerships with other government departments such as Department of Defence and Military Veterans, Department of Women, Youth and People with Disabilities, Youth organizations, youth structures and other relevant stakeholders. Youth are identified through DSD Youth Mobilisation programmes and are mobilized from different races, ethnicity, gender, class and language from all nine provinces. The Youth Camps are aimed at promoting national identity, nation building, social cohesion, patriotism and active citizenry under various themes each year. The camps present an environment where young people are moulded, guided and skilled to enhance their sense of responsibility and maximise their individual and collective energies for personal development as well as development of the broader society. Within the programme, young people are engaged in dialogues on topical issues that affect them and their communities, with a view of identifying root causes and identify strategic solutions to address the youth challenges.

(ii) The impact of the Annual National Youth Camp in the lives of the youth,

The impact of Youth Camps has been enormous in the sense that majority of Youth who participated in the DSD Youth Camps are involved in community development through running of the NPOs and their businesses contributing towards development of communities and building and strengthening of social cohesive communities. The department is also currently conducting a study on the ‘Design and Implementation Evaluation of youth camps’: DSD Camp model’. The study is scheduled to end in the second quarter of the financial year 2022/2023 and it will provide the department with a clear picture of the impact made by the Youth Camps and once the report is ready it will be shared with the Members as the report will identify and profile some of Youth that have participated in the Youth Camps and are making some impact in their respective areas of development.

b) How are the youth who participate identified?

The Youth camp participants are made of the youth from all the nine provinces. A youth criterion is generated to identify youth according to age, gender, race, disability, demographic location to ensure the balance concerning the participation of youth. The Youth come through the District Camp engagement per province, and Provincial Camps per province. At the District level, Youth are identified through Youth Mobilisation programmes by looking at their active participation and engagement with the programmes and their willingness to contribute towards eradication of the triple challenges of poverty, unemployment and inequalities especially as it affects the young people.

(c) What are the details of the involvement of the provinces in the national youth camps.

The Department has build-up camps first at District level that culminate into the Provincial Youth Camps. From the Provincial Camps, then the Youth will be taken to the National Youth Camps through submission of their names to National Department by the provinces.

(3) whether she will furnish Ms A L A Abrahams with a list of (a) facilities that were used to host the youth camps in the past 10 years, (b) catering service providers that were used for the specified period and (c)(i) all other service providers used, indicating service that was rendered by each in the specified period; if not, why not in each case; if so, on what date?

Response:

(a) Facilities that were used to host the youth camps in the past 10 years,

The Department has in the main used the Department of Defence and Military Veterans facilities as it had a partnership with the Department.

(b) Catering service providers that were used for the specified period and

The catering service providers in the main it was the Department of Defence and Military, who provided an all inclusive list of services.

(c) (i) all other service providers used, indicating service that was rendered by each in the specified period; if not, why not in each case; if so, on what date

The service providers used where mainly government departments and agencies (NDA, NYDA) rendering training on various aspects such as entrepreneurial and leadership skills. Other service providers included providers for promotional and training materials as well as facilitators.

Reply:

The South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) has contracted the South African Post Office (SAPO) to pay grant beneficiaries, which includes beneficiaries of the COVID-19 Social Relief of Distress. SAPO in turn has expanded their distribution network to include retailers. This agreement, however, is between SAPO and the retailers. SASSA is not a party to the agreement.

The arrangement, however, is similar to those between banks and retailers, where beneficiaries who chose to have their funds paid into their own personal bank account, can then access those funds from their bank, any other banks including ATM and/ or any merchant, which has an arrangement with their bank. For SAPO, this is done at no cost to the beneficiary.

Reply:

a) The suspended social grants referred to were reinstated on 28 October 2021.

b) At this stage, SASSA does not have precise information on the employment nature of the re-instated beneficiaries. It is important to note that entitlement to a grant is not reviewed based on employment, but on income, as defined in the regulations to the Social Assistance Act.

c) Notices were sent in January 2022 to the suspected government employees, indicating that their social grant will be reviewed, and that they had 3 months to report to SASSA to enable this process to be concluded. This period has ended in April 2022. In May 2022 letters were sent to all beneficiaries, who have not come forward for the review process, informing them that SASSA intends to suspend their grant at the end of July 2022.

d) Beneficiaries who do not present themselves before the end of July 2022; will be suspended at the end of the month. However, the beneficiary will then still have another 3 months to come forward and request SASSA to re-instate their grants. Failure to comply, will result in the grant being permanently cancelled and the beneficiary will need to reapply for the grant should they still require it. Thus, it is expected that the entire process until termination of the grant will be concluded by October 2022.

e) Through the review process, SASSA updates the personal, financial and medical information of a beneficiary. This is very similar to an application process, and all relevant information required to determine whether or not a beneficiary still requires a grant is reviewed. Personal information is also updated to ensure that the records of the beneficiary is accurate and current.

Types of reviews include Administrative/ Financial reviews, Medical reviews, Foster Child Grants reviews and Refugee reviews. In terms of the Regulations to the Social Assistance Act, the Agency may review a social grant at any time where it has a reason to believe that changes in the beneficiary's financial circumstances may have occurred; or on expiry of the validity of the identity document of a beneficiary, if the beneficiary is a refugee; or on the expiry of the foster care order.

The process firstly requires identification of beneficiaries due for review. This is then followed by notification letters where beneficiaries are informed to approach a local SASSA office with the required documentation for purposes of completing a review process. Beneficiaries are given 90 days’ notice to complete this process. Once the process is completed the beneficiary is provided with an outcome letter.

In the case where the beneficiary still qualifies for the grant after the review process, the process ends, and the beneficiary will continue to receive payment of the social grant. Where the beneficiary no longer qualifies, the social grant is terminated, and he/she has the right to appeal to the Independent Tribunal for Social Assistance Appeals.

In cases where overpayments were made to the beneficiary, an acknowledgment of debt is raised; and /or the matter is referred to the Fraud and Compliance Unit for further investigation.

Reply:

a) (i) Three thousand seven hundred and twenty nine ( 3 729) public servants have been found to have applied for Early Childhood Stimulus Relief Fund (ii) however, none of them received the monies as they were identified prior to processing the applications for payment as the Department conducted a due diligence during verification process.

b) There is no breakdown that can be provided as the department did not pay any public servants from the Early Childhood Development Presidential Stimulus Relief Fund.

 

Reply:

1. Information regarding the 198 government employees was received on the 29th March 2022 from DPSA.

2. No. The relevant Head of Department has not been informed yet.

a) The Agency is expecting to receive all relevant information pertaining to the level 13 official before it can open a case with the South African Police Services (SAPS). When this is received, we will concurrently inform the Head of the Department responsible for the official through the DPSA as agreed on how the process should flow.

b) The official is a Chief of Staff at one of the provincial government departments.

3. Information regarding the nine (9) government officials was received on 01 February 2022. On 29 March 2022 we received information balance of outstanding 198 officials.

4. A progress report pertaining to the nine referred cases was received from SAPS as detailed below:

Item no	Station and Cas No	Court
1	Vereeniging 249/11/2021	Under investigation
2	Edenpark 166/11/2021	Under investigation
3	JHB Central 762/11/2021	Under investigation
4	Sandton 312/11/2021	Randburg court – the prosecutor declined to prosecute
5	Fochville 140/11/2021	Fouchville court - the prosecutor declined to prosecute
6	Hillbrow 385/11/2021	Johannesburg Court - the prosecutor declined to prosecute
7	Evaton 238/11/2021	Sebokeng Court - the prosecutor declined to prosecute
8	Moroka 323/11/2021	Protea Court - the prosecutor declined to prosecute
9	Evaton 240/11/2021	Sebokeng court - the prosecutor declined to prosecute

Reply:

No, there isn’t a decrease of 6 million beneficiaries in the 2021-22 financial.

In the 2020/21 financial year we paid 12 628 175 beneficiaries (that is the people who actually receive the social grant). Thus there was an increase of 159 691 to 12 787 866 between the two years.

The total number of grants paid in the 2020/21 financial year was 18 440 572 and this has increased to 18 677 339 in the 2021/22 financial year. A beneficiary may receive more than one grant, e.g. a caregiver receiving 2 child grants for 2 children. Hence the number of beneficiaries are smaller than the number of grants paid.

Reply:

Budget for 2021-2022 financial year

The Sub-Programme Youth in the allocation for 2021-2022 allocated the funds according to the Goods and Services, which were programmes and interventions for youth across the country; compensation of employed staff and equipment needed for execution of tasks in the department. The allocation is as reflected below:

DIR : YOUTH 2021/22	Current Budget	Total Expenditure	Available Budget	Percentage
COMPENSATION OF EMPLOYEES	4 103	4 152	-49	101.19%
GOODS AND SERVICES	9 568	4 529	5 039	47.33%
HOUSEHOLDS(HH)			0
MACHINERY AND EQUIPMENT	45	-	45	0.00%
TOTAL	13 716	8 681	5 035	63.29%

Budget for 2022-2023 financial year

The Sub-Programme Youth in the allocation for 2022-2023 allocated the funds according to the Goods and Services, which are programmes and interventions for youth across the country; compensation of employed staff and equipment needed for execution of tasks in the department. The allocation and expenditure is as reflected below:

DIR : YOUTH 2022/23	Current Budget	Total Expenditure	Available Budget	Percentage
COMPENSATION OF EMPLOYEES	3 858	328	3 530	8.50%
GOODS AND SERVICES	8 701	545	8 156	6.26%
HOUSEHOLDS(HH)			0
MACHINERY AND EQUIPMENT	48	-	48	0.00%
TOTAL	12 607	873	11 734	6.92%

REPLY (2)

What are the details of any underspending in the 2021-22 financial year?

The financial year 2021-2022 reflects underspending due to the following reasons:

There was no facilitated National Camp as a mobilization strategy for youth due to (i) the Department embarked on the process of appointing a service provider for conducting the Design and Implementation Evaluation of Youth Camps in order to determine the impact of camps over the years since 2012-2019. The appointment of the Service provider to conduct the evaluation of camps delayed due to no responses from the advertisements. Lack of a Service provider to deliver a skills development training on Business Management also resulted in 2021-2022 underspending. The hosting of provincial engagements further led to underspending due to COVID restrictions as well provincial competing priorities.

Reply:

1. Offices occupied by the Department of Social Development in Bloemfontein and Botshabelo and the conditions in terms of Occupational Health & Safety Compliance are as follows:

Office Building	OHS Condition
CIVILIA BUILDING – PROVINCIAL OFFICE	FIRE EQUIPMENT Valid unit 31/12/2023. FUMIGATION Attended - 17/02/2022. Follow Up - 17/03/2022 & 28/03/2022. VENTILATION New Aircons installation completed September 2021, the Chiller Machine currently being serviced. LIFTS New lifts installation completed November 2020. GENERAL MAINTENACE Inspection conducted with Landlord on 12 April 2022 to attend to maintenance matters.
OLD STANDARD BANK BUILDING – PROVINCIAL OFFICE	FIRE EQUIPMENT Valid unit 31/10/2022. FUMIGATION Completed on 18/02/2022. VENTILATION Aircons serviced in March 2022. LIFTS Functioning well. GENERAL MAINTENACE Attended by Landlord as per request.
STANDARD BANK HOUSE BUILDING – PROVINCIAL OFFICE	FIRE EQUIPMENT Valid unit 31/10/2022. FUMIGATION Completed on 18/02/2022. VENTILATION Aircons serviced in March 2022. LIFTS Functioning well GENERAL MAINTENACE Attended by Landlord as per request.
LEMO MALL – DISTRICT OFFICE	FIRE EQUIPMENT Valid unit 31/12/2022. FUMIGATION To be attended in the current financial year. VENTILATION Aircons in working order. LIFTS In working order. GENERAL MAINTENACE Attended by Landlord as per request.
TSHEPONG – DISTRICT OFFICE	FIRE EQUIPMENT Valid unit 30/09/2022. FUMIGATION Procurement underway for all outstanding institutions and sub offices in Mangaung. VENTILATION Windows available. Air conditioners to be installed during the 2022/23 Financial Year. LIFTS Flat structure. Ramp available. GENERAL MAINTENACE Attended to by the Department.
BOTSHABELO FDC – DISTRICT OFFICE	FIRE EQUIPMENT Valid unit 30/09/2022. FUMIGATION To be attended to in the current financial year. VENTILATION Windows available. New Air conditioners installed during 2019 and functioning well. LIFTS N/A. GENERAL MAINTENACE Attended by Landlord as per request. Last major renovations took place during August 2019.
TSHIRELETSONG CYCC	FIRE EQUIPMENT Not in good working condition. Department of Public Works and Infrastructure in a process to service fire equipment. FUMIGATION Completed in April 2022. VENTILATION Windows available. Air conditioners in good working order. LIFTS N/A. GENERAL MAINTENANCE Attended by the Department of Public Works and Infrastructure as per the conditions of the lease contract.
BOIKETLONG OLD AGE HOME	FIRE EQUIPMENT Valid until 30/09/2022. FUMIGATION Service to be completed by 17/05/2022. VENTILATION Windows available. Air conditioners in good working order. LIFTS N/A. GENERAL MAINTENANCE Attended by the Department as and when required.
WINKIE DIREKO & ONE STOP CHILD JUSTICE CENTRE	FIRE EQUIPMENT Valid until 30/09/2022. FUMIGATION Completed in March 2022. New procurement underway. To be finalised by 30 June 2022. VENTILATION Windows available. Air conditioners in good working order. LIFTS N/A. GENERAL MAINTENANCE Attended by the Department.
BOTSHABELO HAVEN	FIRE EQUIPEMENT Valid until 30/09/2022. FUMIGATION Procurement underway. To be finalised by 30 June 2022. VENTILATION Windows available. Air conditioners in good working order. LIFTS N/A. GENERAL MAINTENANCE Attended by the Department as and when required.

2. The offices are still operating due to the fact that the issues identified in the previous years in terms of Occupational Health and Safety were attended to and the buildings comply with the requirements of the Act.

3. No new Contraventions/Prohibition Notices were received by the Department to date in the offices in question.

Reply:

(1) (a) Refer to response to question 1484.

(b) (i) list of all NPOs funded in 2021-2022 financial year was provided in question 1484.

(ii) the total amount of funding allocated to each NPO in the 2021-2022 financial year was provided in question 1484.

(2) (a) Total number of NPOs has their budgets cut in the 2021-2022 financial year in each province:

Province	Budget Cuts
Eastern Cape (Annexure A)	A total of 1663 NPOs were affected by budget cuts in Eastern Cape Province per programme: Programme 3: Early Childhood Development – 1485
	Programme 4: Crime Prevention – 42 Victim Empowerment Programme – 136
	Programme 5: Nil
Free State (Annexure B)	0
Gauteng (Annexure C)	0
Kwa-Zulu Natal (Annexure D)	0
Limpopo (Annexure E)	The budget cuts were affected as per programmes and not individual NPOs. A total of 1868 NPOs within Programme 2, 3 and 4 in Limpopo Province were affected by budget cuts in 2021-22 FY. The breakdown per programme is as follows: Early Childhood Development (ECD) & Partial Care involving 1319 NPOs Services to People with Disabilities involving 131 NPOs affected Drop-in Centres (DIC) involving 349 NPOs Social Behaviour Change involving 9 NPOs Services to Families: District & Provincial Councils affecting 59 NGOs/NPOs Victim Empowerment Programme – 69 NPO.
Mpumalanga (Annexure F)	Welfare Services: One Community Development: Nil
North West (Annexure G)	0
Northern Cape (Annexure H)	0
Western Cape (Annexure I)	0

(2) (b) the names of the NPOs that had their budgets cut and (c) the cuts amount to in total.

Province	Names of NPOs that had their budgets cut	Amounts cut per NPO
Eastern Cape (Annexure A)	Refer to Annexure A for the lists per programmes. Programmes indicated on the list are:
	Programme 3: Early Childhood Development (except special day care centres)	R26 425 344
	Programme 4: Crime Prevention (42) and Victim Empowerment Programme (166)	Programme 4 - The budget cuts amounted to R7 321 000
	Programme 5:	Nil
Free State (Annexure B)	0	Nil
Gauteng (Annexure C)	0	Nil
Kwa-Zulu Natal (Annexure D)	0	Nil
Limpopo (Annexure E)	6 programmes in Limpopo Province were affected by budget cuts and they are:	A total of R135 800 000 million was cut from Programme 2,3 and 4.
	Early Childhood Development (ECD) & Partial Care.	R70 million
	Services to People with Disabilities	R9 million
	Drop-in Centres (DIC)	R38 million
	Social Behaviour Change	R9 million
	Services to Families	R100 000
	Victim Empowerment Programme	R9.7 million
Mpumalanga (Annexure F)	Welfare Services: Emmanuel Family Home CYCC Community Development: A contract of Honey Dew Youth Development Centre was terminated due to poor management of funds. An amount of R242 014 was suspended, following the identification of replacement NPO. The allocated budget was spent in line with the planned outputs for 2021/22.	R48 000 Nil
North West (Annexure G)	n/a
Northern Cape (Annexure H)	n/a
Western Cape (Annexure I)	n/a

 

Reply:

a) A total of 350 staff members were trained as sign language interpreters by the Enterprise University of Pretoria over a period of 12 months, through SASSA in 2017.

Of these, 330 are still employed by SASSA. The discrepancy of 20 is as a result of staff who have either left the employ of SASSA, or passed away. The breakdown per province, is indicated in the table below:

REGION/PROVINCE	TOTAL NUMBER OF TRAINED OFFICIALS	TOTAL NUMBER OF OFFICIALS STILL IN THE ESTABLISHMENT
Eastern Cape	23	21
Western Cape	23	23
Northern Cape	22	22
Mpumalanga	29	27
North West	60	56
Gauteng	74	72
Limpopo	41	37
Free State	34	34
Kwa-Zulu Natal	44	38
TOTAL	350	330

b) Where possible, the staff trained as sign language interpreters are deployed to front offices and pay points to assist. However, in areas where these staff are not available, other measures, such as communicating in writing to the citizens, are employed.

Reply:

The table below indicates the numbers of applicants booked for medical assessments for disability grants. It is only once the assessment has been done that it will be known whether the grant is awarded as a temporary or permanent disability grant, as this classification is determined by the presenting medical condition. A temporary disability grant is awarded where there is a likelihood that the medical condition or disability is not likely to present for a period of longer than twelve (12) months.

Clients Awaiting To Be Medically Assessed for a Disability Grant
Region	Upcoming Assessment*
WESTERN CAPE	8 049
EASTERN CAPE	958
KWAZULU NATAL	4 461
LIMPOPO	2 657
NORTHERN CAPE	773
FREE STATE	1 427
GAUTENG	6 737
NORTH WEST	2 243
MPUMALANGA	2 653
TOTAL	29 958
Schedule for the period until the month of June 2022

Reply:

a) Yes, the Department has transferred R10 million, which is a portion of the Transaction Advisory Services fees to GTAC. This is a standard practice for major infrastructure procurement projects of this magnitude. The balance Transactional Advisory Services fees will be transferred upon finalisation of the feasibility study – which is due later in the 2022/23 financial year.

b) No. The Acting Director-General is in the process of engaging the entities as the entire DSD Portfolio stand to benefit from the Tshwane Inner City Regeneration Programme, which is driven by the Department of Public Works and Infrastructure. Part of this mixed-use precinct development includes facilitating the construction of five National Government client departments to be permanently accommodated, with the finalisation of the StatsSA head office already achieved in 2016.

The remaining four government head offices to be constructed in the precinct includes the Department of Social Development and its agencies, SASSA and the National Development Agency, the Department of Higher Education and Training, the Department of Home Affairs and the Department of Correctional Services and Constitutional Development. This programme is supported by National Treasury Government Technical Advisory Centre (GTAC) and the City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality as partners and major stakeholders. The construction of the four head offices of Government Departments will be implemented as PPPs bringing about private sector participation throughout the lifecycle of the project.

Reply:

(a) The table below reflects the number of children that are orphaned for the period 2018 to 2020. (General Household Survey report published in 2021.) The figures for 2021 are not yet released by Statistics South Africa.

Province	2018	2019	2020
Eastern Cape	75 754	118 732	90 841
Free State	37 621	31 662	33 241
Gauteng	84 421	69 523	162 899
KwaZulu-Natal	121 071	148 585	126 347
Limpopo	49 683	52 459	60 374
Mpumalanga	42 228	43 270	40 613
North West	29 552	42 171	58 289
Northern Cape	10 885	10 799	13 078
Western Cape	8 143	23 313	29 501
Total	459 358	540 514	615 184

b) Department is implementing a Community-Based Prevention and Early Intervention Programme called RISIHA, which provides Core Package of Services (CPS) to vulnerable children which among others include orphaned children. The aim of this programme is to move children from vulnerability to resilience, minimise risk, address the underlying causes of vulnerability or risk, and build a protective environment.

There are seven intervention domains of the CPS which are as follow:

• Food and Nutrition which provide a safety net for children within their communities and where they can access food when the food provision in their family is insecure or where the child is at risk of stunting and malnutrition. Improve children’s food security & nutrition intake by ensuring access to community nutrition opportunities (cooked meals, food parcels), promote adequate nutrition, and track children’s growth to identify stunting.

• Psychosocial support which is aimed at improving children’s mental health by the early identification of children in emotional and psychological distress, extend the implementation of evidence-based social behavioural change programmes, sensitise families on children’s participation in a family matter and promote access to sport & recreation.

• Educational support which is geared towards increasing access to and attendance of school. The programme includes supporting children to overcome obstacles such as lack of school uniform, transport, lack of parental support for schooling and to support children in their educational performance.

• Economic Strengthening which aims at supporting and increasing the economic base of households through facilitating access to social security grants, entrepreneurial and other economic strengthening activities.

• Child care and protection aimed at preventing child abuse, neglect and exploitation. It further creates an enabling environment within the home, community and accessible services that will support parents to look after their children.

• Health promotion which is intended to improve children’s health through better access to health care, promote and support access to sexual reproductive health services for girls and boys, and the early identification and support to children with disabilities, promote and support good WASH habits.

• HIV and AIDS services which are aimed at reducing children’s risk of contracting HIV by improved HIV awareness and sexuality education, promoting known HIV status of children, support ART uptake and adherence and mitigating sexual and substance risk-taking behaviour of adolescents.

(c) (i) The total budget of R43 407 000.00 has been allocated to children’s services in the national department of social development which is inclusive of orphaned children for 2022/2023 financial year. This excludes social assistance accessed by the children through Social Assistance Act 13 of 2004 and those placed in alternative care in terms of Children’s Act 38 of 2005. The following indicates budget allocation per individual province.

(ii) Mpumalanga - A total budget of R181 046 000 was allocated towards services that support orphaned and vulnerable children in the 2021/2022 financial year. These are:

• Place of Safety R600 000.00
• Child protection Organizations: R27 614 000
• Community Based Prevention and Early Intervention programme: R96 856 000
• Child and Youth Care Centres R55 949 000

(iii) Western Cape: R9 008 212

(iv) Free State: The total amount of the budget allocated towards the support of orphaned children by Designated Child Protection Organisations through the provisioning of statutory services which includes the investigation, placement and psychosocial support services to orphaned children is R 38 072 million. The allocation to community-based care and support services is R 14 719 million.

The transfer payment allocated to CYCCs is

R 66 068 million rand to provide residential care services including psychosocial services to orphaned children.

(v) Kwa- Zulu Natal: The budget allocated towards support of the orphaned children is under the item Child Protection and Care. The allocated budget for 2022/2023 financial year is R 421 531 000.00.

(vi) Gauteng: The allocated budget for Orphans and Vulnerable children is R 432 705 000

(vii) Eastern Cape: There is no specific or separate budget for addressing orphaned children within Directorate – Child Care and Protection Services. The budget allocated for Transfer funding encompasses provision of a range of Child Protection Services including services to orphaned children.

Child Protection Organizations = R33 741 179 (thirty - three million, seven hundred and forty – one thousand, one hundred and seventy - nine rand). This is for rendering Prevention and Early Intervention Programmes as well as Statutory services.

An amount of R61 200.000 (sixty – one million, two hundred thousand rand only) for residential care / CYCCs in respect of children found to need care requiring residential care programme inclusive of orphaned children.

Safety Fees for provision of Temporary Safe Care by Safety Parents = R313.821 (three hundred and thirteen thousand, eight hundred and twenty – one rand).

An amount of R300.000 (three hundred thousand rand) allocated for advertisement / publication in line with Regulation 56 of the Children’s Act in relation to abandoned or orphaned children.

(viii) Northern Cape: total amount of the budget that has been allocated towards the support of orphaned children is as follows:

CYCCs = R24 531 000

Welfare organizations = R13 692 000

Places of care = R227 000

Good and service =R2 332 000

(ix) Limpopo - The total budget for Child Care and Protection Services is R23 518 000

This amount is not only for orphaned children programmes but for the entire Child Care and Protection Services Programme

(x) North West - Total budget for child care and protection services for 2022/23 allocated as follows: Goods and services: R2 416 000

• Transfers: R48 744 000
• Compensation: R9 545 500

(d) (i) Below is the total number of non-governmental organisations (drop-in centres) providing services to vulnerable children in the country.

PROVINCE	NUMBER OF DIC
Limpopo	455
Mpumalanga	111
Gauteng	168
Kwa Zulu Natal	217
Free State	128
Eastern Cape	29
Western Cape	15
North-West	77
TOTAL	1 200

(ii) Total number of NPO and Government run CYCCs

Province	NPO	Government
Eastern Cape	27	3
Free State	52	2
Gauteng	114	8
KZN	63	7
Limpopo	9	5
Mpumalanga	24	2
Northern Cape	10	1
North West	10	1
Western Cape	54	7
Total	362	35

(e) Bed capacity (i) for each orphanage in the province.

(i) Eastern Cape

	Child and Youth Care Centres	Bed Capacity
	NPO
1	Crossroads Children’s Home	42
2	Siyakhana YOEP	40
3	Kieskammahoek	34
4	Siyakhana YOEP	20
5	Daily Bread C/O Deerfield	100
6	East London Children’s Home	107
7	Good Samaritan Child & Youth Care Centre	45
8	Masizakhe Children Home	70
9	Siyakhana Youth Outreach and Education Programme	18
10	Emmanuel CYCC	26
11	CWSA Tsolwana Sparrows CCYCC	20
12	Lukhanyo Children Home	38
13	EP Child and Youth Care Centre	78
14	ACVV Khayalethu Youth Centre	28
15	Mtr Smit Children's Haven	74
16	Oosterland Child and Youth Centre	93
17	SOS Children's Village Republic of SA	73
18	Lukhanyiso	18
19	Maranatha Siyakatala CYCC	30
20	Khanyisa Children Home	26
21	Thembelihle Home	46
22	SOS Children's Villages Mthatha	52
23	Bethany Home	70
24	Siyakhana YOEP	18
25	Mzomtsha Children Home	54
26	Eluxolweni Charitable Trust	22
27	Vuyani Thanduxolo	33
	Government
28	Erica	65
29	Protea	35
30	Maluti	40
	Total	1415

(ii) Free State

	Child and Youth Care Centres	Bed Capacity
	NPO
1	Amor Child and Youth Care Centre	12
2	Bolokanang Child and Youth Care Centre	30
3	Esperanza Child and Youth Care Centre	12
4	Our Child and Youth Care Centre	122
5	Tshepang Child and Youth Care Centre	12
6	Gladstoneweg Child and Youth Care Centre	12
7	Ntlo Ya Tsotello	24
8	Gardenia Child and Youth Care Centre	12
9	Carpe Diem Child and Youth Care Centre	12
10	Thalitha Cumi Kids	28
11	Thalitha Cumi Babies	14
12	Child Welfare Temporal Safe Care Thaba Nchu	13
13	El Pizo	12
14	Pelo ya Jeso	25
15	Iphamiseng	30
16	Heidedal Youth Mission	30
17	Setshabelo CYCC	15
18	Kidz Care Trust( Street Children)	16
19	Lebone  (Not Funded)	30
20	OCSA Therapea Kids (Not Funded)	20
21	Hlohloloane Child and Youth Care Centre	30
22	Lefika Child and Youth Care Centre	12
23	Marquard Child and Youth Care Centre	16
24	Memorial Child and Youth Care Centre	12
25	Senekal Child and Youth Care Centre	12
26	Vrede Child and Youth Care Centre	12
27	Charlotte Theron Child and Youth Care Centre	123
28	David's Place	12
29	Dumisani Child and Youth Care Centre	16
30	Hope House	30
31	Itekeng Disabled Centre Child and Youth Care  Centre	24
32	Welkom Child and Youth Care Centre	12
33	Welriedal Child and Youth Care Centre 1	12
34	Welriedal Child and Youth Care Centre 2	13
35	Winburg Child and Youth Care Centre	30
36	Thusano Child and Youth Care Centre	15
37	Maanblom Child and Youth Care Centre	12
38	Merafong Child and Youth Care Centre	12
39	Nala re Thabile Child and Youth Care Centre	30
40	Eikelaan Child and Youth Care Centre	12
41	House of Hope	20
42	House Malelane	14
43	Emmanuel Children's Haven	30
44	Pres. Kruger Kinderhuis	65
45	Letsemeng Child and Youth Care Centre	24
47	Presidentia Child and Youth Care Centre	12
48	Bokahosane Ba Bana CYCC	20
49	Ringerstraat Child and Youth Care Centre	12
50	Sasolburg Child and Youth Care Centres	12
51	Sasolburg Child and Youth Care Centre 2	12
52	Viljoenskroon Child and Youth Care Centre	12
	Government CYCC
53	Leratong CYCC	50
54	Tshireletsong CYCC	60
	Total	1270

(iii) Gauteng

	Child and Child and Youth Care Centre	Bed capacity
	NPO
1	Abraham Kriel -Bermuda House	12
2	Abraham Kriel -Pomona	10
3	Abraham Kriel Benoni	12
4	Acres of Love	50
5	Chance Children's Home	86
6	Collin House/ Greater Benoni	20
7	East Rand Children's Haven5 Muriel Brand street	20
8	Epworth Children's Village	84
9	Executive Welfare (Talita)	11
10	Executive Welfare ( Alberton)	10
11	Executive Welfare (Morester )	9
12	Executive Welfare (Benoni)	30
13	Executive Welfare (Villa Lethemba)	12
14	Executive Welfare (Villa Liberi)	10
15	Executive Welfare(House Impak CYCC	12
16	John Wesley Child and youth care centre	15
17	Kids Haven Shelter	98
18	Kids Haven Sunshine Village	83
19	Siyabonga Children's Home Trust	36
20	St Francis Care Centre	35
21	St George's Home	23
22	Tembisa Child Welfare	74
23	Tembisa Child Welfare	29
24	The Almond Tree	65
25	Tholakele Centre of Hope	42
26	Abraham Kriel Langlaagte	106
27	Abraham Kriel-Maria Kloppers	60
28	Acres of Love	90
29	Arcadia Jewish children's home	30
30	Aryan benevolent	45
31	Aryan benevolent	10
32	Bethany Girls Home	110
33	Bethesda	32
34	Botshabelo	15
35	Crescent Haven	24
36	Door of Hope	19
37	Door of Hope	50
38	Door of Hope	50
39	Ethembeni	60
40	Executive Welfare (Florida Baby Home)	13
41	Executive Welfare (House Kosmos)	9
42	Executive Welfare (Wees Gerus)	9
43	Executive Welfare(Rosettenville Baby Home)	12
44	Guild Cottage	18
45	Hearts of Hope	9
46	Hearts of Hope	34
47	Ikholwa Community Service	8
48	Ikholwa Community Service	8
49	Ikholwa Community Service	8
50	Johannesburg Children's Home	64
51	Miracle Mission	12
52	Nazareth House Johannesburg CYCC	40
53	New Jerusalem Children's Home	120
54	Oasis Haven of Love	10
55	Oasis Haven of Love	10
56	Siyakhula	80
57	Othandweni Family Care centre	90
58	Princess Alice adoption home	30
59	Resthaven Ministries	12
60	Rhema CYCC	53
61	SOS Children's Village	160
62	St Mary's Children's Home	60
63	St Nicolas Home For Children	15
64	The House Group CYCC	32
65	The Kingsway Center of Concern	22
66	The Orlando Home for children in need of care	80
67	Uitkoms	20
68	Villa of hope	90
69	Yenzani Children’s Home	14
70	Alfonso Fusco Maria	36
71	Bethesda Outreach Ministries	39
72	Bophelong Children's Home	36
73	Bramley Children's Home	46
74	Ebenezer House of Hope	24
77	Good hope Community Organisation	20
76	Jehovah Jireh Orphanage Centre	27
77	Jakaranda Children's Home	250
78	Leamogetswe Safety Home	82
79	Louis Botha Children's Home	110
80	Lerato House (TLF)	20
81	Mohau centre	48
82	Moepathutse Children Centre	50
83	President Kruger Children Home	63
84	SOS Children's Village	90
85	Tshwaraganang Community Development	36
86	Urbanvest Foundation	15
87	Ya Bana Village for Children	62
88	Executive Welfare (House Shalom)	9
89	Executive Welfare (Huis Naledi)	9
90	Executive Welfare (House Dorandia)	10
91	Executive Welfare (Victory Kids)	9
92	Executive Welfare (House Heneka)	12
93	Executive Welfare (House Thembelisha)	9
94	Executive Welfare (House Jabulani)	9
95	Executive Welfare (House Kideo)	10
96	Catherine Robson	76
97	Doulous Ministries of South Africa	40
98	Emfuleni Shelter for boys	16
99	Hae Mona Children's Home	41
100	Kotulong Community Centre	60
101	Lerato Child and Youth Care Centre	20
102	Polokong Children's village	16
103	Polokong Children's village	50
104	Sedibeng Children's Haven	14
105	The Executive Welfare Council of the AFM of SA	29
106	Vereeniging Alliance for street children	13
107	Bethany House Trust Safe Haven	107
108	Bethany House Trust Ikusasa	44
109	Executive Welfare (Umephi El-Dad)	10
110	Executive Welfare (Umephi Jade )	12
111	Girls and Boys Town Kagiso	70
112	Girls and Boys Town Magaliesburg	68
113	Philani Safe Haven	20
114	Rhema Hands of Compassion	36
	Government
115	Garankuwa Rearabilwe CYCC	60
116	Desmond Tutu CYCC	90
117	Don Mattera CYCC	75
118	Igugulethu CYCC	75
119	Mary Moodley CYCC	80
120	Walter Sisulu CYCC	90
121	Emmasdal CYCC	30
122	JW Luckhoff CYCC	50
	Total	5058

(iv) Kwazulu-Natal

	Child and Youth Care Centre	Bed Capacity
	NPO

1	Pietermaritzburg CYCC	90
2	Lilly of the Valley CYCC	120
3	SOS Children’s Village- Grange CYCC	78
4	Ekujabuleni CYCC	45
5	Sunlit Garden CYCC	55
6	Khazimula Children’s project CYCC	30
7	Salvation Army Joseph Baynes CYCC	82
8	Benjamin Generation CYCC	36
9	Esimphiwe CYCC	20
10	Sikawoti CYCC	16
11	Assisi CYCC	20
12	Emseni CYCC	36
13	Inathi CYCC	60
14	Ikhayalethu CYCC	57
15	Place of Restoration CYCC	60
16	Rehoboth CYCC	80
17	Themba Club CYCC	50
18	Sacred Heart CYCC	80
19	Doxa Umephi CYCC	12
20	Home of Comfort CYCC	55
21	Peter Pearce CYCC	50
22	St. Vincent Child& Youth Care Centre	110
23	Streetwise Child& Youth Care Centre	50
24	Tennyson House Child and Youth Care Centre	15
25	Malvern Child and Youth Care Centre	120
26	Ikhethethelo Children’s Village	52
27	Ethelbert Child and Youth Care Centre	66
28	Lakehaven Child and Youth Care Centre	60
29	Abalindi Child and Youth Care Centre	40
30	Ramakrishna Child and Youth Care Centre	40
31	St Theresa’s CYCC	72
32	William Clark CYCC	54
33	Durban CYCC	74
34	St Martins CYCC	75
35	St Philomena’s CYCC	40
36	St Thomas CYCC	40
37	Wylie House CYCC	40
38	Girls and Boys Town South Africa- Tongaat CYCC	40
39	St Monica’s CYCC	84
40	Aryan Benevolent Home CYCC	102
41	District 49 CYCC	30
42	I Care CYCC	28
43	Othandweni CYCC	20
44	Siyabathanda CYCC	20
45	Blessed Gerard’s CYCC	70
46	Inqolobane CYCC	30
47	Ikhayalethu CYCC	40
48	St Joseph CYCC	30
49	Msawenkosi CYCC	40
50	Ikhayalikababa CYCC	25
51	Sizanani CYCC	35
52	Koningsdal CYCC	90
53	Inkululeko CYCC	21
54	Destiny House Children’s Ministries CYCC	24
55	Mseleni CYCC	20
56	St Anthony’s CYCC	100
57	Home Meah CYCC	20
58	Morester-Newcastle CYCC	60
59	Greytown Child and Youth Care Centre	160
60	Isiphephelo CYCC	14
61	Victory Haven CYCC	20
62	Ikhayalethu CYCC	105
63	Morester CYCC	150
	Government
64	Greenfield Child and Youth Care Centre	72
65	Zakhe Child And Youth Care Centre	40
66	Valley View Child And Youth Care Centre	60
67	Ocean View Child And Youth Care Centre	60
68	Ngwelezane Child and Youth Care Centre	68
69	Newcastle Child and Youth Care Centre (School of Industry)	100
70	Princess Mkabayi Child and Youth Care Centre	85
	Total	3943

(v) Limpopo

	Child and Youth Care Centres	Bed capacity
	NPO
1	Ngwana House	28
2	Holy Family	75
3	Noah’s Ark	50
4	Takalani Children’s Home	70
5	Abram Kriel	170
6	Huis Tekna	56
7	Huis Talje	55
8	Thabang	45
9	Mantadi	34
	Government
10	Polokwane Welfare Complex	80
11	Iris House	60
12	Mtsetweni	60
13	Tubatse	30
14	Thohoyandou Children’s Home	107
	Total	920

(vi) Mpumalanga

	Child and Youth Care Centre	Bed Capacity
	NPO
1	Michaels Children's Village	18
2	Millenium Home of Hope	18
3	SOS Children's Village Association of the Republic of South Africa	75
4	Theresa Willis Home of Hope	15
5	Uthando House	25
6	Moses Sihlangu Health Care Centre	21
7	St John's Care Centre	55
8	Jinda Child Care	18
9	Emmanuel's Family Home	15
10	Uthandiwe Children's Home	25
11	Ebenezer CYCC	30
12	Uzwelo Home	54
13	CMR Child and Youth Care Centre	70
14	SAVF Louis Hildebrandt Kinderhuis	108
15	Janell Huis	25
16	Damesfontein CYCC	20
17	Phephelaphi Home	45
18	Suid Afrikaans Vrouederasie Belfast Kinderhuis	214
19	Kosmos Kinderhave	75
20	Child welfare SA Africa Emalahleni (Highveld House Place of Safety)	12
21	Bethesda House Of Hope	35
22	Middelburg Care Village	108
23	The Executive Welfare Council of the AFM SA (Umephi)	15
24	CMR Place of Safety 1 and 2	30
	Government
25	George Hofmeyr	60
26	Thulamahashe CYCC	20
	TOTAL	1 206

(vii) Northern Cape

	Child and Youth Care Centre	Bed Capacity
1	Christina Kiddie	28
2	Sinothando	35
3	Helen Bishop	65
4	Jannie Roux	85
5	VGK Kinder Herberg	80
6	Bright lights	80
7	uMephi Bophelo House 1	14
8	uMephi Bophelo House 2	10
9	De Aar Precinct	16
10	Jogebet	12
	Government
11	Lerato	40
	Total	465

(viii) North West

Name of CYCC	Bed occupancy
SOS Children’s Village	80
Abraham Kriel CYCC	230
SAVF Rethabile CYCC	150
Morester CYCC	50
Grace Help Centre CYCC	50
SAVF Atamelang Shelter CYCC	20
Thakaneng Project Shelter CYCC	47
Legae la Bana CYCC	20
Legae Motheo CYCC	20
Light House CYCC	50
Reamogetswe CYCC	30
	747

(ix) Western Cape

	Child and Youth Care Centres	Bed capacity
	NPO
1	Agape Children's Ministries Children's Home	30
2	Andrew Murray Children's Home (Badisa)	155
3	Brave Heart Home (Kidz@Peace Ministries T/A)	13
4	Herberg Children's Home	122
5	Jeug Uitreik (Youth Outreach)	20
6	Overstrand Child and Youth care centre	25
7	Steinthal Children's Home	140
8	Sean Kelly	14
9	ACVV Moreson Child and Youth care centre	100
10	Bethesda Child and Youth care centre	24
11	Dorothy Broster Children's Home	50
12	Huis Triomf	30
13	Masizame	30
14	ACVV Bright Lights	20
15	AFM Executive Welfare Council (House Rock-a Bye House -Kuilsrivier)-East	10
16	AFM Executive Welfare Council (House Thembiso - Kraaifontein)	10
17	Baphumelele Children's Home	105
18	Fikelela Kids	37
19	Girls and Boys Town Macassar/ Kenilworth	55
20	Goeie Hoop CYCC	45
21	Hope and Light Children's Village	25
22	Huis Susan Lapoorta	45
23	Heartands Baby Sanctury	25
24	Masigcine	28
25	The Homestead - The Bridge on Elukhuselweni (Finalised placement)	65
26	Courage to Care	36
27	AFM Executive Welfare Council (House Ubuntu - Goodwood)-North	12
28	Cape Town Multi-Service centre	30
29	Durbanville Children's Home	142
30	Holy Cross	60
31	Home of Hope	17
32	Lawrence house (Scalabrini Centre of Cape Town)	25
33	Nazareth House	20
34	Oranjia Jewish Children's Home	8
35	Ons Plek Projects for Girls / Siviwe	34
36	Ons Plek Projects for Girls / Stabilization Programme
37	Percy Bartley House	15
38	SA	44
39	SOS Children's Home	80
40	The Homestead - Intake Shelter (Temporary Placement)	25
41	Christine Revel Children's Home	49
42	Heaven's Nest Child care and Recreation Centre	15
43	HOKISA	15
44	Leliebloem House	60
45	Margaret's House	16
46	Marsh Memorial Home	60
47	Realistic Child and Youth Care Centre	30
48	St Georges Home for Girls	36
49	St Michael's Children's Home	25
50	Vision Child and Youth Care Centre	20
51	Vulamasango	36
52	Elkana	24
53	Huis Van Heerde	70
54	Siyabonga-Huis van Danksegging	20
	Government
56	Lindelani Child and Youth Care Centre	100
57	Vredelus Child and Youth Care Centre	76
58	Horizon Child and Youth Care Centre	155
59	Clanwilliam Child and Youth Care Centre	100
60	Outeniekwa Child and Youth Care Centre	140
61	Bonnytoun Child and Youth Care Centre	130
62	Kraaifontein ROAR Centre - temporary safe care	50
	Total	2998

(e)(ii) The bed capacity nationally in Child and Youth Care Centres is 18 022

Name of Province	Bed occupancy
1. Eastern Cape	1415
2. Free State	1270
3. Gauteng	5058
4. Kwa Zulu Natal	3943
5. Limpopo	920
6. Mpumalanga	1206
7. Northern Cape	465
8. North West	747
9. Western Cape	2998
Total	18 022

Reply:

a) National Department of Social Development

Programme	Budget Reduction R’000
Compensation of Employees (All) Goods and Services (All)	(63 000) (27 000)
Transfers and Subsidies
Social Assistance Grants (P2)	(8 000 000)
SASSA Administration (P3)	(641 000)
National Development Agency (P5)	(20 900)
Grand Total	(8 751 900)

(i) Social Assistance Grants – R 8 billion

An amount of R8 billion was reduced in the 2021/22 financial year from the Social Assistance programme.

(ii) SASSA – R 641 million

An amount of R641 million was reduced from the SASSA Admin baseline as a result of the wage bill containment strategy as announced in the 2020 Budget.

• An amount of R20.9 million was reduced from the baseline of the NDA as a result of the wage bill containment strategy as announced in the 2020 Budget.

• An amount of R63 million was reduced from the NDSD personnel budget baseline as a result of the wage bill containment strategy as announced in the 2020 Budget.

• An amount of R27 million was reduced from the Goods and Services as a direct implication on the budget reduction of the personnel budget

b) Provincial Departments of Social Development

Eastern Cape

An amount of R77,951 million has been reduced from various programmes. An amount of R18.8 million has been reduced from programmes related to Compensation of Employees. R59,151 million has been reduced from Transfer and subsidies and is listed below:

Programme	Budget Reduction R’000
Compensation of Employees (All)	(18 800)
Transfers and Subsidies
Administration	(841)
Social Welfare Services	(14 239)
Children and Families	(36 719)
Restorative Services	(5 023)
Development and Research	(2 329)
Sub Total – Transfer and Subsidies	(59 151)
Grand Total	951)

Free State

From the 2021/22 financial year, the departmental budget decreased with R77.196 million. The cuts were mainly on Compensation of Employees as a result of freezing of annual salary adjustments over the MTEF, as listed below:

Programme	Budget Reduction R’000
Administration	(36 387)
Social Welfare Services	(15 422)
Children and Families	(22 004)
Restorative Services	18 980
Development and Research	(23 083)
Total	(77 916)

Gauteng

The Gauteng Department of Social Development baseline allocation was reduced by R420.3 million in the 2021/22 financial year and the below table reflects the budget cuts per programme:

Programme	Budget Reduction R’000 (Million)
Administration	(35 330)
Social Welfare Services	(24 441)
Children and Families	(181 766)
Restorative Services	(115 676)
Development and Research	(63 130)
Total	343)

KwaZulu-Natal

The table below reflect the budget cuts to the 2021/22 financial year per programme:

Programme	Budget Reduction R’000
Administration	(45 779)
Social Welfare Services	(59 332)
Children and Families	(172 798)
Restorative Services	(20 000)
Development and Research	(25 000)
Total	909)

Limpopo

An amount of R 482. 6 million was cut across all programs during 2021/22 financial year as indicated below:

Programme	Budget Reduction R’000
Administration	(80 788)
Social Welfare Services	(74 649)
Children and Families	(225 563)
Restorative Services	(56 469)
Development and Research	(45 217)
Total	(482 686)

Mpumalanga

There were no budgets decreases to any of the programmes imposed for the 2021/22 financial year.

However, an amount of R80.0 million was decreased during the 2021/22 budget adjustment process during September 2021 related to the new social infrastructure projects.

Northern Cape

The Department’s EPWP allocation was reduced from R9,3 million to R5,2 million allocation for the 2020/21 and 2021/22 financial year respectively.

North West

The budget reduction implemented in 2021/22 financial was R 228.4 million, and in 2022/23 R 311.5 million and a further transfer of ECD function to the Department of Education amounting to R 192 million.

Analysis of the budget reduction during the 2021 MTEF is discussed in the analysis table below: -

Below is the breakdown of budget reduction per programme

Programme	Budget Reduction R’000
Administration	(11,195)
Social Welfare Services	(77,882)
Children and Families	(75,710)
Restorative Services	(35,360)
Development and Research	(28,274)
Total	(228,421)

Budget reduction per economic classification

Economic classification	Budget Reduction R’ 000
Compensation of employees	(150,007)
Goods and Services	(24,869)
Non-profit institutions	(41,028)
Machinery and equipment	(12,517)
Total	(228,421)

Compensation of employees

The reduction on compensation of employees implies that the Department will not be able to appoint critical posts, and the phasing out of performance awards and other improvement on conditions of services.

Goods and services

The reduction on this economic classification was mainly on services not to be rendered during COVID-19 i.e. venues and facilities, catering due to restrictions implemented at that stage.

Transfers and subsidies

This reduction had an implication on the targets to our funded NGO’s, and expansion of services.

Machinery and equipment

The reduction on this economic classification was mainly aligned to the reduction on compensation of employees.

Western Cape

The Western Cape DSD have the following budget cuts over the 2020 MTEF.

Programme	Budget Reduction R’000
Administration	(41,503)
Social Welfare Services	(82,048)
Children and Families	(42,366)
Restorative Services	(63,200)
Development and Research	7, 266
Total	(221,851)

• The reduction on Compensation of employees impacted services offered by the Department. Norms and standards ratio for child vs care worker were not met and increased absenteeism.

• The ability to respond to disasters and humanitarian relief was severely impacted. There was limited ability to address food insecurity where SASSA didn't have additional funding.

• The EPWP (Extended Public Works Programme) was reduced by R9.944 million.

• The department received an additional R25 million to strengthen food relief measures in support of the Western Cape Recovery Plan.

Reply:

1 (a) The projected number of beneficiaries for CSG top up are as follow:

• 2022/23 - 191,200
• 2023/24 - 238,500
• 2024/25 - 287,400

(b) The CSG top-up grant is not a new grant as it builds on the existing Child Support Grant by increasing the amount allocated to orphans in the care of relatives and orphans in child-headed households.

The following criteria is used to identify potential CSG top up beneficiaries:

• A child heading a household who is aged between 16 and 18 can apply for and receive the child support grant for him/herself as well as receive the CSG Top Up for the children under his/her care.
• A caregiver, or relatives of orphans taking care of orphaned children can apply for the CSG Top Up;
• CSG Top up applicants are subjected to the means test, where the applicant’s income and /or his/her spouse is considered.

The following requirements need to be adhered to in order to qualify for a CSG top up:

• Relatives will need to provide proof that they are related to the child by attesting to their relation to the child.
• Applicants need to provide proof that the child is an orphan by producing:
  • A death certificate/s of the child’s parents or
  • An affidavit attesting to their lack of knowledge as to whether the child’s parent is dead or alive.

(c) The CSG top up is set at the level of 50% of the Child Support Grant (CSG), and government will try to maintain it at this level. Thus when it is implemented in June 2022, the value of the CSG will be R480, the top up will be R240, bringing the total value of the CSG with the top up to R720.

(d) Due to delays with the translation of the regulations, it is expected that the regulations will only be published in June 2022. Potential beneficiaries will need to apply for the grant, and will be paid the top-up together with their CSG (as one payment).

(e) The projected expenditure for CSG top up for 2022/23 financial year is R550.66million, however will be lower due to delayed implementation.

(2) In June 2022, when the regulations are published applications will be taken manually at SASSA local offices. Later during the course of the year the online application system will be amended to accommodate the CSG Top-Up grant.

(3) The CSG top up is not a standalone grant, but an additional amount payable over and above the CSG; similar to the top up provided on the Older Persons Grant for those over 75. Once legislated it will be a permanent benefit, provided that beneficiaries meet the qualifying criteria for the CSG and those for the additional CSG top up.

(4) The CSG top up has not yet been implemented, thus it has not yet been evaluated. (a) However, we do know that the CSG has significant positive developmental impacts on the lives of children. These benefits relate to the increased income in households that receive grants; it is thus expected that this increase in the value of the CSG (through the top up) will increase those benefits. (b) Attached find a copy of the Child Support Grant impact evaluation study conducted by the department.

 

Reply:

(a) Temporary disability grants, as the name itself denotes, is awarded for a specific period, which is determined by the outcome of a medical assessment undertaken. At the end of the specified period, the grant lapses and the applicant can re-apply if still unable to work as a result of the medical condition. No temporary disability grant is placed in a “frozen” status, pending assessment.

(b) As of 23 May 2022, a total of 25 952 clients are awaiting assessments by medical doctors. There are no clients waiting for an assessment in excess of 30 days or more. See below for provincial assessment bookings:

CLIENTS WAITING FOR ASSESSMENTS
Region	Awaiting Assessments	Awaiting ≥ 30 days
NORTH WEST	1608	0
MPUMALANGA	1660	0
NORTHERN CAPE	802	0
FREE STATE	514	0
GAUTENG	5021	0
WESTERN CAPE	9240	0
EASTERN CAPE	885	0
KWAZULU NATAL	4571	0
LIMPOPO	1651	0
TOTAL	25 952	0

 

(c) In 2021/22, 243 823 temporary disability grants lapsed. Unfortunately, SASSA is not able to determine immediately how many clients have re-applied, but can confirm that no client whether new or a re-application has a medical assessment outstanding for more than 30 days.