department of social development

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Omie Chester02/04/2024
Concern over increase in abandoning of children
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Omie Chester27/03/2024
Government to crack down on unaccompanied children entering SA through borders
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Omie Chester05/03/2024
Mom of raped toddler charged with negligence
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Omie Chester02/01/2024
Baby born to 14-year-old KZN girl fuels concerns over scourge of underage pregnancies
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Omie Chester13/12/2023
NPO: Budget cuts would have a significant impact on GBV victims
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Omie Chester08/12/2023
5-year-old girl returned after being taken during hijacking
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Omie Chester01/12/2023
KwaZulu-Natal recorded most teenage pregnancies
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Omie Chester18/10/2023
12-year-old schoolgirl traumatised after rape by 4 of her peers
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Omie Chester28/09/2023
SAHRC meets Social Development Dept to avoid another Sassa bungle
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Omie Chester16/09/2023
Postbank to manually reverse Sassa payments after over half a million people left penniless due to technical glitch
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Omie Chester05/09/2023
Council sitting to fathom the scale of hijacked buildings following Joburg CBD fire
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Omie Chester09/08/2023
Eastern Cape tragedy is due to insufficient food
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Omie Chester09/08/2023
Child in a viral video taken away from mother after father opens case
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Omie Chester13/06/2023
KZN Social Development Dept: Food vouchers not meant for all flood victims
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Omie Chester12/04/2023
DA claims Sassa misspent tax payer’s money
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Omie Chester28/03/2023
2 more suspects caught for AKA’s murder
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Nelly Ndlovu16/02/2023
Nearly eight million social grant applications approved
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Omie Chester15/02/2023
Parliament hears Sassa receives over 13 million R350 SRD grant applications in January
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Omie Chester25/10/2022
Gauteng government launches 24-hour anti-substance abuse helpline
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Omie Chester08/10/2022
Department of Social Development to launch nyaope rehabilitation programme
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Omie Chester23/08/2022
Sassa: Stricter requirements for new Social Relief of Distress Grant applicants
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Omie Chester11/08/2022
Investigation into Transnet building evictions of KZN floods victims
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Omie Chester29/07/2022
Calls for Sassa to make a plan after suddenly closing Khayelitsha office
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Omie Chester28/06/2022
Main institutions in Tshwane battle power outages after flooding at substation
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Omie Chester30/05/2022
MEC Panyaza Lesufi says department to focus on Early Childhood Development this year
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Omie Chester15/05/2022
Calls for Sassa to ensure new grant payment come at no cost to recipients
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Omie Chester23/04/2022
SA COVID-19: R350 Social Relief recipients asked to re-apply
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Omie Chester17/03/2022
ECD centres demand release of Covid-19 Stimulus Funds
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Omie Chester23/02/2022
Most of the government’s expenditure goes towards social spending
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Omie Chester30/12/2021
Sassa social grant payment dates confirmed for January 2022