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DSD Budget: Committee Report
15 Jul 2020
Ms B Masango (DA) moved their adoption, and Ms Van der Merwe seconded. The minutes were adopted.
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DSD, SASSA & NDA Adjusted Budget & Revised Annual Performance Plan; Update on response to Covid-19 matters
8 Jul 2020
Ms B Masango (DA) said that statements made by the Minister, Deputy Minister and Acting Director General expressed the need for more effort to be made to bring social services to the ground due to the social ills experienced right now. This means that social workers need to be deployed ...
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DSD on progress made in implementing Gender Based Violence Fermicide emergency response action plan
4 Jun 2020
Ms B Masango (DA) said the presentation on SASSA and the progress made had been listened to and appreciated. She had commented as in a previous meeting that the stages in application process were too complicated. People who applied knew that they had to check the status of their applications ...
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NGOs on the Covid19 related food security programmes; DSD on its programmes (food distribution, psychosocial support and GBV) responding to the Covid 19 pandemic
29 May 2020
Ms B Masango (DA) noted the Solidarity Fund presentation says that 299 500 households were reached. She asked if this translates to food parcels distributed at one point in time. She referenced slide 5 and asked what the numbers in the ward level index mean. She got the impression that ...
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DSD progress report to address backlog in Foster Care System & meet North Gauteng High Court deadline
21 May 2020
Ms Abrahams (DA) stated that her points were covered in the observation section of the report and Ms Masango (DA) stated that she was happy with the recommendations.
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DSD progress report to address backlog in Foster Care System & meet North Gauteng High Court deadline
21 May 2020
Ms B Masango (DA) asked a number of questions:
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DSD progress report to address backlog in Foster Care System & meet North Gauteng High Court deadline
21 May 2020
Ms Masango (DA) put forward the motion to adopt the report and Ms Manganye (ANC) seconded the motion. Ms Ngwenya (EFF) stated that the EFF contested the adoption of the Report. The report was however, adopted.
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DSD, NDA & SASSA on action plan progress to respond to AG audit findings and BRRR
13 May 2020
Ms B Masango (DA) said that the lack of oversight, vacancies in critical positionsn and the lack of consequence management were recurring issues in the AG’s report. A lot of the challenges were inherited from the previous administration, but the people that were key to the implementation were not ...
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DSD & SASSA 2020/21 Annual Performance Plans
8 May 2020
Ms B Masango (DA) said she appreciated that the Department had met with the entire sector. She asked what challenges had been created around the need for food? The Department had been rendered inadequate and not ready to meet the need people had for food. The CFO had stated that ...
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DSD & National Development Agency 2020/21 Annual Performance Plans
7 May 2020
Ms B Masango (DA) said that there is a sense from DSD that the AGSA review of the final draft of the APP is optional, why is this the case? Why is it not mandatory as the findings from these reviews are critical? After the reviews were done, it seems ...
