Honourable Speaker
Honourable Premier
Members of the Executive Council
Members of the Legislature
Traditional leaders
Our partners in social development
Distinguished guests
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Ladies and gentlemen
Comrades and friends
In his maiden speech the President of the Republic of South Africa, the Honourable Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma challenged all of us to work together to fight poverty and build a better life for all. He called upon all of us to unite in action to address the challenges that continue to bedevil our society.
I would therefore like to heed the clarion call that has been made by our President and in that context would like to further add my humble voice by calling upon all of us as the citizens of this province to deal with our own challenges in a united front.
My appeal to my fellow citizens of our Province can be comfortably captured in a well known expression which says “umanyano ngamandla, kopano ke matla, unity is strength, eendrag maak mag”.
Let me also take this opportunity to congratulate the people of the province for having turned out in big numbers to cast their votes in the recent elections and for giving the African National Congress (ANC) a fresh mandate to lead the people towards the achievement of a better life.
Ndifuna ukuthi kubo sibamba ngazibini, sithi maz’enethole, ukwanda kwaliwa ngumthakathi.
Sithi Huntsu!!!!! Amaqobokazana angalal’endleleni yazini kunyembelekile.
Honourable speaker, as a Department of Social Development, our primary responsibility is the provision of care, protection and development for the poor and the vulnerable.
The Eastern Cape continues to be plagued by a legacy of unacceptable levels of unemployment, under-development, HIV and AIDS, poverty and inequality, and high levels of vulnerability amongst women and children.
As our Honourable Premier indicated in her State of the province address last week, there is no doubt that considerable strides have been made in the last 15 years in addressing these. There is also no doubt that as a department we have made considerable progress in responding to our mandate. But, we would be the first to admit that much still needs to be done.
Honourable members, we acknowledge that the task lying ahead of us is a daunting one, especially given the current economic climate within which we have to operate.
Our approach in this budget is informed by the set of priorities that have been articulated in the State of the Nation Address of 3 June 2009, relevant to our mandate, and which reflect the commitments made in the manifesto of the ruling party.
These were further detailed by the Honourable Premier in her State of the Province Address. The department is contributing, in particular, to the following provincial priorities:
- transformation of the economy and creation of decent work and sustainable livelihoods
- rural development and food security
- strengthening education, skills and human resource base
- improving the health profile of the province
- intensifying fight against crime and corruption
- building cohesive, caring and sustainable communities, and
- building developmental state, improvement of public service and strengthening democratic institutions.
The department has different programmes that contribute to these priorities in various ways. Through our budget in 2009/10, the department will strive to contribute in these areas to improve the lives of our people.
The important point I wish to emphasise is the strong effort we have made to promote an integrated approach to service delivery and to move out of silos. We do so in the strong belief that the department alone can never address the social ills of the Province, but by working together, we can.
In our quest to honour our unflinching commitment to the service of our people, we have reprioritised our budget and plans for 2009/10 so as to intensify the delivery of social welfare and community development programmes in the province.
We are once again paying focused attention to programmes that are intended to fight child poverty, foster social cohesion and provide sustainable livelihoods. The dilemma that we face is that the need for our services is great, but the resources available are finite. In effect the department received a 2.7% increase in its budget. This has necessitated hard choices, a point I will return to later.
Honourable speaker, this is how we will be responding to the sector priorities that have been mentioned above.
1. Creation of decent work and sustainable livelihoods
1.1 Youth development
In the previous financial year, we initiated a programme to intervene in the situation of young people, especially the unemployed rural youth, through skills development and linking them to sustainable opportunities.
The programme was also meant to promote activism, patriotism, social cohesion and nation building. This programme was initiated by the former Minister of Social Development, Dr Zola Skweyiya. I would like to report that, in respect of the above, we have successfully recruited 420 young people.
This current financial year the department is targeting the training of 420 Masupa-Tsela Youth Pioneers. The curriculum focuses on South Africa and social transformation, Masupa-Tsela principles and values, participatory action research, sustainable development as well as on project management processes and skills.
The University of Fort Hare was selected by the National Department as one of two South African universities to develop the curriculum and training programme.
The department has also taken cognisance of the fact that young people need comprehensive engagement around issues that affect their own development. The promotion of entrepreneurial skills in unemployed and out of school youth will continue to receive attention.
To this end, a Youth Development Indaba will be conducted from 23 to 25 June 2009, as part of the Youth Month activities. Input from this Indaba will assist the Department in crafting our five year and three year medium term plans for youth development.
For the current financial year, the Department has identified 49 youth development projects which will be supported by a budget of R18 million. These are spread across the six districts of the province and the metro. These span a wide range, including nurseries, brick making, crop production, poultry, fishing, essential oils, information and communications technology (ICT), juice production, sewing and beadwork.
1.2 Women development and gender mainstreaming
The goal of this programme is to establish and develop integrated women co-operatives in the Province with more bias towards poverty nodal points. In so doing, we are supporting efforts by the Economic Growth and Infrastructure Cluster to boost co-operative development in the Eastern Cape.
The strength of the department lies in its community development expertise in mobilisation and establishment of cooperatives, which can then be taken further by other departments like the Department of Economic Development and Environmental Affairs (DEDEA) when they become economically viable.
A strong effort will be made in 2009/10 to engage the DEDEA and the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development more meaningfully in this regard.
In this financial year, the Women Development unit will focus on organising women into viable economic co-operatives and to strengthen monitoring mechanisms of funded projects. An amount of R20 million has been set aside for funding and development of 40 new women co-operatives and R4,7 million to strengthen existing and previously funded women co-operatives in the province.
An additional R5 million has been set aside for funding 10 projects in deep rural areas, in partnership with traditional leaders with a view to ensuring the centrality of traditional authority in poverty alleviation initiatives. Working with Imbumba Yamakhosikazi Akomkhulu in this regard, we have identified projects, mainly on food security.
We anticipate that a total of 1 033 households will directly benefit from these Women Development projects through access to self-generated income opportunities.
2. Institutional capacity building and support
Honourable speaker these community development projects make an enormous contribution to the lives of people, especially in rural areas. But we continue to be concerned about their viability and capacity for effective project management.
In 2008/09, the department entered into a service level agreement with the University of Fort Hare to assist in capacitating all the funded non-profit organisations (NPOs) and co-operatives. An amount of R13 million was set aside for this purpose, of which R10 million was for training of funded NPOs and R3 million for capacitating 43 community development practitioners.
In this year we will continue to try to build capacity and strengthen monitoring. An amount of R9,1 million has been set aside to capacitate all funded projects in governance, project and financial management as well as in their respective core business.
This training is intended to enhance the performance of projects, not only in their core business, but also in the management of funds, which is key to sustainability. Monitoring of these projects has been formally delegated to District and Local Service Office managers to institutionalise ongoing monitoring and evaluation. In this regard we would like to mention that in order to ensure greater co-operation with Local Government, we obtain letters of support from Local Municipalities before we approve projects.
3. Services to people with disabilities
This programme aims at implementing services that promote socio-economic empowerment in line with the Integrated National Disability Strategy (INDS).The vision for the INDS is society for all. This requires that there must be integration of disability issues in all government development strategies, planning and programmes.
This year the department is funding11 protective workshops targeting, 553 people with disabilities in the Nelson Mandela Metro, Cacadu, Amathole and O R Tambo Districts. Special focus will be on transformation through implementation of norms and standards and disability policy.
In this regard we work closely with the Department of Labour and the Office of the Premier. In addition, honourable members, 1 475 people with disabilities will receive skills training and be linked to open labour market and business ventures. The budget allocated for this is R2,2 million. The overall budget for services to people with disabilities is R30,2 million.
4. Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP)
The Department of Social Development continues to play an active role in the Social Needs Cluster to create work opportunities in phase two of the EPWP. The focus is on creating work opportunities and skills development in Early Childhood Development (ECD) and Home Community Based Care (HCBC). In ECD we are targeting to create 3 876 work opportunities, and 3 162 in HCBCs.
5. Rural development, food security and land reform
5.1 Rural development strategy and poverty eradication
Honourable speaker, I would like to welcome the emphasis placed on rural development in line with the Polokwane resolutions and pledge our support to the MEC for Agriculture and Rural Development in the drafting of the rural development strategy and in the detailed implementation plan.
The department has already been working closely with the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development in this regard. At an operational level, there is considerable scope for aligning the work done in the department’s poverty eradication unit on the 11 poorest local municipalities with the rural development strategy.
Last year the Department completed a very detailed door to door survey of the needs of over 7 000 households (covering over 34 000 people) in the pilot wards identified by the 11 local municipalities. Intensive community consultation on ways of eradicating poverty culminated in a Poverty Eradication Summit, held in October last year.
Working with Eastern Cape Socio Economic Consultative Council (ECSECC), an anti-poverty strategic framework was developed. The intention now is to provide all relevant departments with the detailed needs analysis from the door to door survey so that departments can plan suitable interventions in the pilot Wards over three years. A budget of R11 million has been allocated for the poverty eradication programme.
5.2 Food security
This programme, as part of the broad function of community development, aims to promote sustainable livelihoods and increase household food security among poor and vulnerable communities in the Eastern Cape.
The Department of Social Development will support the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development by implementing sustainable livelihood projects in rural areas. An amount of R57,2 million has been set aside for funding 48 new projects and 36 existing projects in poverty pockets in rural areas in this financial year.
6. Strengthening our education, skills and human resource base
Honourable speaker, under the priority of building social cohesion I will discuss childcare and protection issues in detail. It is important to indicate under the priority of strengthening our education, skills and human resources; the Department of Social Development also has a role.
6.1 Early Childhood Development (ECD)
Honourable members no one can dispute the importance of ECD in laying the foundation for future success in education. The Department of Education and the Department of Social Development have complementary roles to play in this regard.
The Department of Social Development takes care of children from zero to four years of age, whilst education is responsible for Grade R upwards. The Department of Social Development has a Memorandum of Understanding with the Department of Education to train ECD practitioners and to provide educational equipment in ECD centres funded by Social Development.
Notwithstanding the good work that has been done here, there is still considerable room for improvement. At a policy level, work needs to be done to improve the provisioning of ECD services. One of the resolutions of the Polokwane conference was that these policy gaps be addressed.
This year we will lobby the National Departments of Social Development and Education to implement this resolution so that better quality ECD services can be rendered.
In the meantime the Department will still strive to provide support to those ECD centres funded by the department. A budget of R83,2 million has been earmarked to subsidise 1 262 funded ECD centres, benefiting 74 480 children in 2009/10, an increase of 121 from the previous year.
Honourable speaker, these ECD services not only provide an educational foundation for young people, the subsidy also includes providing a nutritious meal. In short, ECD is a very significant contribution to fighting child poverty. I would like to be very clear in this house: the need for quality ECD is very great.
We are obliged by law to register all ECDs, but we are not required to subsidise them all. A total of 1 262 will receive subsidies this year. We continually receive requests from new ECD centres for subsidies and from existing ones to increase the number of children being subsidised. This is one area, especially, where the lack of meaningful increase in budget has been felt.
7. Improving the health profile of the province
7.1 HIV and AIDS
The department will continue to fund and strengthen financial support to 114 HCBCs. Our target this year is to reach 30 690 orphans and vulnerable children (OVCs), providing psycho-social support and material assistance in the form of school uniforms, clothing, stationery and food parcels. More focus will be placed on orphans and child headed households and formation of support groups.
The department will continue to embark on the back to school program, which has assisted thousands of children who did not have school uniforms in the past two years.
Out of these HCBCs, four are being piloted as multi purpose centres. These will provide integrated services such as ECD, HCBC, and care for older persons and youth development.
An Integrated Home Community Based Care model is being piloted at Sakhingomso and Masibambisane HCBCs in Lady Frere and Buffalo City respectively.
Honourable members, to create a meaningful impact and to strengthen partnerships with stakeholders, the Department intends to establish a Provincial Action Committee for children infected and affected by HIV and AIDS, with district and local action committees and Child Care Fora at community level.
The department will work with the Departments of Health and Education to implement preventative and promotive programmes that address behaviour change across the province, in line with the National HIV and AIDS Strategic Plan for 2007 to 2011. In-and out of school youth will be targeted through focus groups and youth indabas.
The total budget allocated for HIV and AIDS is R68 million, down from R76 million last year. Included in last year’s budget were a number of projects funded by means of an ad hoc grant for one year. Honourable members, arising from resolutions of this house on the need for more effective monitoring and evaluation of these projects, the department prioritised recruitment of social workers at Local Service Office level, rather than continue to fund ad hoc projects that we cannot monitor.
8. Intensify the fight against crime and corruption
8.2 Crime prevention
The mandate of the department in crime prevention focuses on provision of probation services, developmental programmes which preventing and divert children away from the criminal justice system, the reintegration of offenders and provisioning of residential care centres for children awaiting trial, such as Secure Care Centres and Places of Safety.
In curbing crime, our department is working with other member Departments of the Justice, Crime Prevention and Security (JCPS) Cluster in line with the Provincial Crime Prevention Strategy.
Integrated provision of child justice services by these Departments is appropriately demonstrated from assessment to referral of the children in conflict with the law. The department operates a one-stop youth justice centre and reception, assessment and referral centres in five districts.
In Social Development, 50 Probation Officers and 12 Chief Probation Officers were appointed to effectively implement programmes for children awaiting trial. During this financial year the department intends to appoint a further 98 probation services practitioners and child and youth care workers for the existing residential care centres.
A partnership was established with the President’s Award Programme in Grahamstown for provision of skills development programmes in our residential care centres such as Enkuselweni and Erica in Nelson Mandela Bay Metro, and Sikhuselekile in Mthatha.
Last year 102 young people were given awards for successfully completing the programme. This will be strengthened this year. The construction of the Qumbu Secure Care Centre and a One Stop Youth Justice Centre in Mthatha will continue in this financial year.
The total budget for crime prevention and support programme, in line with the newly promulgated Child Justice Act (Act No. 75 of 2008) is R81,163 million.
Crime and corruption are twin evils bedevilling our society. They hold us back from delivering on our mandate and, as such, constitute risks that we need to guard against.
The best weapon against crime and corruption is prevention. To that end the department has increased its anti-corruption capacity. In addition to establishing and staffing an anti-corruption unit as per the Department of Public Service and Administration (DPSA) guidelines, the department established a Risk Management Committee whose duty it is to ensure that the risks facing the Department are identified and their impact mitigated. Regular reports are given to; inter alia, the Departmental Audit Committee.
9. Building cohesive, caring and sustainable communities
9.1 Childcare and protection
Honourable speaker, the Department of Social Development has a mandate to lead in the protection of children in the Eastern Cape, as reflected in both the Children’s Act (Act No. 38 of 2005) and the Children’s Amendment Act (Act No. 41 of 2007).
This legislation focuses, among other objectives, on giving effect to the Constitutional rights of children such as, provision of parental or family care or appropriate alternative care, social services and protection from maltreatment, neglect, abuse or degradation.
We are currently funding five transit shelters benefiting 310 children living and working on the streets: No child should live and work on the streets, however, various factors and circumstances such as poverty, family disintegration among others force them to be on the streets.
It is for this reason that the Department will strengthen intersectoral collaboration with other key stakeholders to provide quality developmental programmes and promote re-unification with families and communities of origin. The budget for this is R7,2million.
In response to the Premier’s concern for children on the street, the department is piloting a project in Buffalo City and the Nelson Mandela Bay Metro to identify children on the street and either re-unite them with their families or take them to shelters.
The department is currently funding 24 children’s homes benefiting 2111 children in need of care and protection. We have allocated a budget of R26,4 million to provide alternative placement to children in need of care and protection.
The department recognises the work that is done by non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in providing child protection services to children in need of care and protection. As part of transformation, the department will continue the partnership with these organisations and the budget for this is R25,2 million
The department has allocated a total budget of R171,748 million (including the amounts specified above) to provide care and support to children.
This represents a decrease of R44,8 million. Honourable speaker, we wish to emphasise that no NPO which implements a childcare and protection function on behalf of the department, and for which it receives a monthly subsidy, has had a budget cut. This amount has been reduced from the ad hoc transfers to projects which were funded for only 12 months.
Furthermore, honourable speaker, we wish to highlight that many of the NPOs rendering obligatory services on behalf of the Government struggle to recruit and retain social workers. We have found over the years, that although we make provision in the subsidy for these social work professionals, we find the NPOs do not access this budget.
Following entreaties received from organisations such as Child Welfare and Christelike Maatskaplike Raad (CMR) in Queenstown, amongst others, we have made provision under compensation of employees. The intention here is to assist such organisations by seconding Social Workers to these NPOs.
9.2 Substance abuse prevention and rehabilitation
Substance abuse has become a global problem with far reaching effects on all dimensions of life, which also manifests itself in the Eastern Cape. We are experiencing a sharp increase in the availability of, and demand for, illicit substances.
Research has clearly shown the link between substance abuse and serious crimes like murder, rape and the abuse of children. If we are serious about rebuilding the fabric of society, we need to pay more attention to the challenges of substance abuse. In our efforts to deal with this challenge, the department has increased the subsidy budget allocation from R6,652,000 to R7,985,000 million for this financial year.
In addition to supporting organisations dealing with substance abuse prevention and rehabilitation, the Department will also intensify awareness campaigns aimed at in- and out-of-school youth such as Teenagers Against Drug Abuse (TADA) and Ke Moja.
9.3 Victim empowerment
Crime and violence continue to present a threat to social cohesion and an impediment to attaining a better life for women and children. In addition to the crime prevention programmes the department implements, we have an obligation to assist survivors of crime.
The impact, which can be physical, emotional, social and economic, is experienced not only by the victims themselves, but by their families and communities.
The trafficking of human beings, especially children and women for prostitution, slave labour and body parts, has become a major problem as well. In the Eastern Cape we have experienced human trafficking in the areas of Butterworth, Ndevana and Nelson Mandela Bay Metro.
The Department has set aside R6,9 million to improve services in the following areas.
The five existing outreach centres in Nelson Mandela, Buffalo City, Lukhanji, King Sabata Dalindyebo and Maletswai Municipalities for management of compassionate and effective care of victims will be supported.
Support will also be provided to the existing two counselling centres in Mt Ayliff and Tsolo, 38 community based care centres and 13 safe homes where 1775 victims will benefit from counselling services and life skills programmes. Volunteers are an integral part of the programme and they will benefit through capacity building and stipends, which will also alleviate poverty.
With the National Department of Social Development, we will provide training opportunities for victim empowerment social service professionals to be trained on the victim empowerment policy, minimum standards, restorative justice, and guidelines for human trafficking, domestic violence and anti-rape strategy.
In line with fostering partnerships and working together, we are pleased to announce that the United Nations Organisation for Drug Control (UNODC), through the National Department of Social Development, has provided technical support to the Victim Empowerment programme and appointed a Senior Manager and administrative support, to placed in the Department until the end of December 2010.
A number of NGOs do excellent work in the victim empowerment sector. In this regard I would like to acknowledge the excellent work done by organisations such as Masimanyane in the province.
Organisations that work in this field and which receive subsidies based on three year service level agreements (SLAs) with the department, will continue to do so at the same level as last year. Those organisations which received an ad hoc grant for one year last year based on their business plans will, unfortunately, not be funded at the same levels, due to the budget available.
This is one of the hard choices we had to make between ECD, care for the elderly and those with disabilities and the Victim Empowerment Programme.
10. Care and support to older persons
Honourable speaker, a society can be measured by the care it provides to its children and the elderly. The Eastern Cape has one of the highest levels of vulnerability of older persons.
The department will intensify implementation of the Older Persons Act (Act No. 13 of 2006). To increase the services we provide to the elderly, the Department has increased the number of service centres from 171 to 204 this financial year. This is a community-based service in which elderly people receive skills, health care, nutrition, supervised exercise and geriatric care.
In this financial year the department will also intensify the monitoring of both funded residential and non-residential facilities to ensure compliance with minimum standards and transformation process. The total budget allocation has increased from R89,6 million to R95,9 million.
11. Care and support to families
The department renders services to families in an attempt to promote the family unit as well as enhancing moral regeneration. In an endeavour to strengthen working relations with stakeholders, we continue working with the Moral Regeneration Movement in the province.
During this financial year we will continue to implement and strengthen ten family resources centres looking at income generating programme, after school care, marriage and family enrichment and inter-generational programmes.
In addition, ten family preservation programmes will concentrate on preserving the family unit and encouraging community participation. Honourable members, I am reminded of an African expression that “motho ke motho ka batho, umntu ngumntu ngabantu.”
Honourable members should be reminded that some families are headed by single parents. In this regard the Department has established six single parents associations; the focus is at empowering the single parents with life skills, parenting skills as well as income generating skills and child parent relationship.
During this financial year the Department will be working closely with the moral regeneration movement so as to promote positive values in the communities of the Eastern Cape.
The community members, civil society organizations, and the social workers will be capacitated on how to deal with families in crisis and positive values.
The budget for care and support to families is R4,869 million.
Honourable speaker, in his State of the Nation Address the President of the Republic has declared 18 July as Mandela Day. He has called upon all of us to do anything that will be of benefit to the less privileged.
As a department we have decided to celebrate the life of this icon of our liberation by identifying, in each district, facilities caring for the aged or children. On the day managers and staff from Head Office and Districts will roll up their sleeves and spend the day cleaning the facilities and caring for people there.
Of course, honourable speaker and honourable members, all of these plans will come to nothing if we do not ensure the department has the capacity to deliver.
11. Building the developmental state, improvement of public service and strengthening of democratic institutions
11.1 Training and capacity
The requirements of the developmental state necessitate a public service which is committed, well capacitated and which has a responsive attitude to the needs of society.
We therefore need to continue with re-orientation and training of staff as part of the transformation of the department. Amongst other training and capacitation, we have budgeted a total of R2,1 million to focus on transversal development of staff in line with the Workplace Skills Plan.
The Departmental Integrated Service Delivery Model put more emphasis on transformation of social services and led to the fundamental redesign and reorientation of the manner in which the department operates.
To advance the re-orientation of social service practitioners, the department plans to continue with a re-orientation programme targeting 93 officials from all district municipalities and the metro.
An amount of R5,7 million has been set aside for this purpose. To improve ethical conduct and professionalism of social service practitioners, the Department will also host a conference targeting 800 Social Workers. An amount of R1,4 million for this.
11.2 Recruitment, retention and equity
During 2008/09 the department strived to fill critical vacancies and ensure that equity targets were met. Currently the staff complement of the department stands at 2 868. In terms of gender the ratio overall is 73,4% women and 26,6% men.
At senior management level we have also progressed in getting closer to the target of 50% female in senior management. Currently, there are 47% females in senior management. With regard to disability, 1,7% of the officials have declared a disability. We will strive to improve upon this in 2009/10 as we fill funded vacancies.
One of the successful interventions over the last two years that has assisted us in recruiting scarce skills like social work professionals has been the bursary or financial assistance programme to needy students. This will be continued in 2009/10.
In collaboration with the National Department of Social Development we are providing financial assistance to social work students who, upon graduating, are contracted to the Department. The National Department is assisting 1 631 students, from first to fourth year. Our Department has earmarked a further R5,2 million to assist another 131 students who will work in the department upon graduation.
Honourable members, whilst I am on the issue of retention of scarce skills, it gives me pleasure to report that on 4 June 2009 the majority of the unions in the HSDPSBC signed the agreement on the Occupation Specific Dispensation (OSD), after a long delay.
OSD is now being implemented backdated to 1 April 2008 in two phases. The first phase is done transversally on PERSAL and the second is to be done provincially, based on experience. Written communication to this effect has been sent out to all staff. The department budgeted for implementation of OSD in 2008/09, but could not implement due to the dispute at national level.
Treasury agreed that the funds must be rolled over due the fact that the delays were not the result of the provinces.
11.3 Improvement of management systems
The past financial year the department continued to tighten internal controls and to generally try to improve the control environment in order to improve its audit outcome. This included revising business process and developing a procedure manual. The implementation of this manual and ten briefing sessions will be rolled out across the province during 2009/10 financial year.
Honourable speaker, in order to improve accountability for the resources allocated, the department has institutionalised planning, deepened monitoring and evaluation system to promote service excellence.
The capacity of the Directorate for Strategic Planning has been significantly enhanced through filling of vacancies. The centralised role of high level monitoring and evaluation has been complemented by formally delegating monitoring and evaluation of NGOs to both district and local offices.
11.4 Research and population capacity and advocacy
Honourable members, effective planning requires evidence based decision making, which in turn requires research. The departmental research unit is also responsible for implementation of the Population Policy of 1998. The population issues enshrined in the Policy necessitates the unit to provide a transversal function to other departments and local government.
In this current financial year the programme will be conducting research, inter alia, on Child Focussed Analysis of the data collected during the study that focussed in the 11 poorest local municipalities, migration and its effects on service delivery, youth and substance abuse, and an impact assessment of foster care programmes of the department. The budget for this is R4,458 million.
12. Conclusion
By way of concluding, honourable members, I strongly feel we would have done a disservice by not expressing our profound appreciation to my predecessors for setting the pace in so far as delivering on the mandate of the department.
The acid test of our success will be measured by the extent to which we are able to extricate our people from abject poverty and absolute deprivation over the next five years.
I therefore call upon all of us, as fellow citizens, to join hands and toil together and make this, our beloved province, a compelling place in which to live and to create a better life for all.
Honourable speaker, it gives me great pleasure to present to the house, the budget and plans for 2009/10 for vote four (Social Development). The detailed strategic and annual performance plans as well as the service delivery improvement plan for 2009/10 are also tabled in this House, accompanying this policy speech.
- Programme: Administration:
2008/09 revised estimate: 366,230
2009/10 medium-term estimates: 372,186
2010/11 medium-term estimates: 384, 817
2011/12 medium-term estimates: 417, 686
- Programme: Social Welfare Services
2008/09 revised estimate: 819,276
2009/10 medium-term estimates: 859,973
2010/11 medium-term estimates: 946,211
2011/12 medium-term estimates: 1, 075,055
- Programme: Development and Research
2008/09 revised estimate: 211 019
2009/10 medium-term estimates: 201 856
2010/11 medium-term estimates: 324 361
2011/12 medium-term estimates: 337 854
- Total
2008/09 revised estimate: 1 396 525
2009/10 medium-term estimates: 1 434 015
2010/11 medium-term estimates: 1 655 389
2011/12 medium-term estimates: 1 830 595
Ke ea leboga
Thank you
Dankie
Enkosi
Source: Department of Social Development, Eastern Cape Provincial Government
