Service Delivery Blitz provides for the community of Jabulani

The Gauteng Department of Social Development hosted a Service Delivery Blitz at Jabulani Hostel on March 14.

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The purpose of the event was to bring service delivery closer to the community of Jabulani as well as the surrounding areas.

Various Gauteng provincial government services such as Department of Home Affairs, Department of Labour and Services, Department of Community Safety, SASSA, SAPS, Vuka Development Centre, Harambee, Department of Health, Department of Agriculture, MaAfrica, NDA, Emdeni Skills Center and SANCA were there to render their services.

“The Gauteng premier has announced that service delivery should be provided to townships and informal settlements since they are neglected areas. The Service Delivery Blitz helps us ensure that we provide proper services to the communities,” said Tokisi Manamela, stakeholder relations assistant director at Social Development.

According to the acting director of the stakeholder relations, Khosi Radebe, the MEC of Social Development had an engagement with Izinduna in November last year. Izinduna indicated to the MEC that they need essential services brought closer to the hostels, adding that all government departments should come and render their services so that they can be able to access service delivery freely and accordingly.

“Hostel residents were positively assisted today. The Department of Social Development brought all the necessary government services that we need.

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“At this moment we have people who are unemployed but because the services are brought to them, people can now be able to apply for social grants and get help from the Department of Labour,” said Sahluko Dladla the Secretary of Izinduna Organisation.

The Department of Social Development said it will continue working with various government services to ensure that people from different townships and informal settlement are provided with proper service delivery.

“We will do an evaluation and impact assessment to identify challenges and also figure out solutions on how we can improve our service rendering as the government going forward,” Added Manamela.

“For a while I have been meaning to get a new ID because I lost the previous one a long time ago.

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“Having the Department of Home Affairs here at the hostel helped me a lot, now I have an ID.

“It was always hard to get help at the Home Affairs branches as they always have technical issues, long ques and they close early,” said Bhutiza Ngubane a resident at Jabulani Hostel.

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