Social Development mismanagement

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Gauteng welfare organisations worried about late payments

Department of Social Development is improving but problems remain

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News | 7 May 2025

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Payment delay leaves KwaZulu-Natal charities struggling

Last week the Department of Social Development notified non-profit organisations that payments will be delayed

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News | 23 April 2025

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Gauteng Department of Social Development ordered to explain its funding decisions

Unfunded non-profit organisations to file a combined summons

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News | 10 February 2025

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Gauteng Department of Social Development admits it did not comply with court orders

Administrative failures continue to plague the department

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News | 28 January 2025

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Inside Gauteng’s R500-million corruption scheme (part two)

How a network of non-profit organisations, co-operatives and companies captured the department’s “sustainable livelihoods” budget

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Feature | 12 December 2024

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Gauteng government’s buried corruption investigation (part one)

Forensic Audit into R500-million corruption in Department of Social Development was hidden. Non-profit organisations paid the price.

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News | 11 December 2024

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Third court order against Gauteng social development department

Nine months into the financial year, some non-profit organisations still not paid

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Brief | 5 December 2024

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Court intervenes in Gauteng government’s funding blunders

Dozens of organisations have not been paid by the provincial social development department

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News | 18 November 2024

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Government-funded organisations getting a rough deal, Parliament told

Women’s shelters anxious about being shut down

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Brief | 31 October 2024

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Criminal charges for previous head of Gauteng Department of Social Development

Matilda Gasela is facing corruption and fraud charges for tender irregularities when she was head of the agriculture department

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News | 17 October 2024

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Food meant for poor families is rotting in a Gauteng food bank

The Department of Social Development has been supplying food but not the funds to distribute it

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Brief | 8 October 2024

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Hundreds of drug users stranded after Gauteng government closes rehabs

Life Nkanyisa’s drug rehabs, formerly known as Life Esidimeni, had capacity for 750 people

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News | 4 October 2024

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Welfare organisations unpaid for six months by Gauteng government

This is despite having signed agreements with the provincial Department of Social Development

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News | 25 September 2024

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Half a billion in unspent funds returned to Treasury by Gauteng department

Auditor-General flags irregular expenditure and insufficient controls in 2023/24 report

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News | 5 September 2024

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The three businessmen and the Gauteng social development department’s millions

The department says the Hawks are investigating the sustainable livelihoods programme but will not provide details

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News | 4 September 2024

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Social development scandal: Last three suspended officials return to work

They were suspended during the term of MEC Mbali Hlophe when the department was in chaos

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News | 26 August 2024