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The Department of Social Development (DSD) of South Africa is a government department responsible for providing social development, protection, and welfare services to the public. Previously called the Department of Welfare, it was renamed in July 2000. [1] The current Minister of Social Development is Sisisi Tolashe.
Social welfare programmes have a long history in South Africa. [3] The earliest form of social welfare programme in South Africa is the poor relief distributed by the Dutch East India Company and the Dutch Reformed Church (DRC) in 1657. [4] The institutionalised social welfare system was established after the British occupied the Cape Colony in ...
The ministry was created in June 1999 when Thabo Mbeki took office as President of South Africa in the 1999 general election. Its precursor in the cabinet of Nelson Mandela was the Ministry for Welfare and Population Development, where Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi was incumbent from June 1996 to June 1999. [2]
It is under the oversight, but not the operational control, of DSD and the Ministry of Social Development. [1] Established in terms of the Social Assistance Act of 2004 and South African Social Security Agency Act of 2004, SASSA is a public entity in terms of Schedule 3A of the Public Finance Management Act. [2]
The executive branch of the national government of South Africa is divided into the cabinet and the civil service, as in the Westminster system. Public administration, the day-to-day implementation of legislation and policy, is managed by government departments (including state agencies with department status), which are usually headed by permanent civil servants with the title of director ...
Social welfare programmes have a long history in South Africa. [14] The earliest form of social welfare programme in South Africa is the poor relief distributed by the Dutch East India Company and the Dutch Reformed Church (DRC) in 1657. [15] The institutionalised social welfare system was established after the British occupied the Cape Colony ...
1.2 Minister of Labour and Social Welfare, 1935-1937. 1. ... Department of Labour: The Minister of Employment and Labour is a Minister in the Cabinet of South Africa ...
The Northern Cape Department of Social Development is the department of the Government of the Northern Cape, responsible for providing social development, protection, and welfare services to the population of the Northern Cape province of South Africa. The political head of the department is the MEC for Social Development; as of 2020 this ...