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The social assistance disbursed by SASSA takes the form of various grants; most of them are means-tested and paid in cash on a monthly basis. These are the Child Support Grant, the Care Dependency Grant, the Foster Child Grant, the Disability Grant, the Grant-in-Aid, the Older Person's Grant (an old-age pension), and the War Veteran's Grant. [6]
In October 2023, a provincial branch of the Department of Social Development (DSD) in KwaZulu-Natal, was accused by a local group of NPOs to not be paying much needed subsidies, having a negative effect on upwards of 400 000 people. This number includes vulnerable children, disabled people, and the elderly.
CSG paid the guardians of the eligible children R460 per month per child in 2022 through the South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) under the DSD. [15] According to the National Treasury of South Africa , "the CSG is now one of the largest social assistance programmes in post-apartheid South Africa reaching 11.2 million children in 2012 ...
The SSA’s focus on state security is significant and is best understood in the context of the evolution of South African politics since 1961. [8] During the B. J. Vorster regime, state security was seen to be paramount by virtue of the fact that the state was the referent object simply because it represented an ethnic minority and was thus contested. [9]
The Executive Council of KwaZulu-Natal is the cabinet of the executive branch of the provincial government in the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal.The Members of the Executive Council (MECs) are appointed from among the members of the KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Legislature by the Premier of KwaZulu-Natal, an office held since May 2024 by Thami Ntuli of the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP).
KwaZulu-Natal is a province of South Africa that is divided, for local government purposes, into one metropolitan municipality (the eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality) and ten district municipalities. The district municipalities are in turn divided into forty-three local municipalities.
27 July – Fourteen sites associated with the struggle against apartheid, including the site of the Sharpeville Massacre in 1960, the village of Mqhekezweni, and Nelson Mandela's alma mater, the University of Fort Hare, are designated as World Heritage Sites by UNESCO, along with three prehistoric sites in Western Cape and KwaZulu Natal.
KwaZulu-Natal Legislature: Jurisdiction: KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: Meeting place: KwaZulu-Natal Parliament Building 239 Langalibalele Street, Pietermaritzburg: Term: 22 May 2019 – 28 May 2024: Election: 8 May 2019: Government: Executive Council of Sihle Zikalala: Members: 80: Speaker: Ntobeko Boyce: Deputy Speaker: Themba Mthembu [1 ...