a) The applicants receive the relief package as and when they pass the verification process. Currently eight thousand and eighty-seven (8 083) ECD services with thirty-three thousand five hundred and twenty three thousand and seventy nine (23 079) employees have been paid.
b) (i) A total of 28,283 applications were received.
Eastern Cape |
3778 |
Free state |
1493 |
Gauteng |
6023 |
KwaZulu-Natal |
5415 |
Limpopo |
4250 |
Mpumalanga |
1928 |
North West |
1478 |
Northern Cape |
749 |
Western Cape |
3169 |
(ii) The applicants received are either fully/conditionally registered or unregistered.
(iii) 39% of applications falls within poor wards according to the Statistics SA Multidimensional Poverty Index. The breakdown according to provinces:
Province |
% Applications in Poor Wards |
% Wards that are poverty declared |
Eastern Cape |
67% |
72% |
Free State |
4% |
8% |
Gauteng |
12% |
10% |
KwaZulu-Natal |
55% |
74% |
Limpopo |
84% |
82% |
Mpumalanga |
37% |
17% |
North West |
53% |
43% |
Northern Cape |
22% |
12% |
Western Cape |
0% |
0% |
(iv) (aa) A total of 108 833 ECD employees is targeted to benefit, however after the verification based on the applications received 116 578.
(bb) There are over 450 000 children who attend the ECD programmes since reopening of ECD services in July 2020. It is not immediately possible
to have the accurate numbers.
(cc) Every applicant committed to re-open within 60 days after receipt of funding as it was one of the requirements.