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The old-age pension accounts for the highest amount of government expenditure among all social assistance programmes in South Africa. [20] The old-age pension was established in South Africa as early as the 1920s. [21] However, the old-age pension system had reflected strong racial inequality until the 1990s. [21]
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] As of 2022 its chief executive officer was Busisiwe Memela-Khambula. [3]
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 ...
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.
A social safety net (SSN) consists of non-contributory assistance existing to improve lives of vulnerable families and individuals experiencing poverty and destitution. Examples of SSNs are previously-contributory social pensions , in-kind and food transfers, conditional and unconditional cash transfers, fee waivers, public works, and school ...
The Social Change Assistance Trust (SCAT) is a South African non-profit advocacy organisation established in 1984 to advocate for human rights and social justice philanthropy. SCAT focuses its projects in the rural areas of four South African provinces. The Western Cape, Eastern Cape, Northern Cape, and the Free State.
In South Africa unconditional cash transfer and social assistance spending amounts to approximately US$20-billion per annum or 15.2% of its total Governmental expenditure (while the country has a GDP of only US$368-billion).
All five had acquired permanent residency status in South Africa in terms of exemptions granted to eligible Mozambican citizens under the Aliens Control Act, 1991. Each was indigent and would ordinarily be eligible for state-funded social assistance, but each had been denied social grants on the basis that they lacked South African citizenship.