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NEWS RELATED TO department-of-social-development

Substance abuse: Children are experimenting with ‘more addictive’ drugs at younger age

Collen Mashawana Foundation teams up with govt to get rural communities clean water

Crime

Close to 5 000 children abused last year, WC social development dept reveals

Crime

Police accidentally drop off 12-year-old runaway at ‘drug den’

Withdrawal of Zulu’s ‘asinine’ social security tax plan welcomed

Zulu backtracks on 12% social security tax with no reasons given

More stats needed on fathers of babies born to teenage mothers

Teen pregnancies: Statutory rape charges must be opened, says social worker

More than five million South Africans apply for SRD grant

Govt partners with Collen Mashawana Foundation to help vulnerable communities

‘Dodgy’ Bosmont centre for abuse survivors to be shut down after drug allegations

Beyond R350 grant: Universal basic income could benefit all of SA, but not without challenges

Courts

Dad fights for his daughter’s custody

Celebs And Viral

WATCH: ‘Oh no!’ Lindiwe Zulu’s viral load shedding video gets TikTok remix

Gauteng social development corruption eats into feeding schemes

Gauteng NGOs fear for the poor as state stalls on funding

Rights group wants R350 social relief grant increased, extended

Sassa national network failure affects millions of grants

Govt finalising proposals for basic income grant, says minister

Crime

Teenage rape victim failed by family and government

Over 12 000 ECD centres have applied to reopen – social development dept

NGO slams social development dept’s ‘aloofness’ to hunger crisis

Draft regulations for distribution of food by social development dept is illegal – DA

DA complains to SAHRC over prevention of food distribution by NGOs