Speech by the Minister of Social Development, Ms Lindiwe Zulu, MP on the occasion of the tabling of the Social Development Portfolio Budget Vote 19 to the National Assembly Tuesday, 30 May 2023 Cape Town

The Minister of Social Development, Ms Lindiwe Zulu, will on Tuesday, 30 May, table the Social Development Portfolio Budget Vote 19 for the current financial year, in Parliament, Cape Town.

The Minister of Social Development, Ms Lindiwe Zulu will on Sunday, 28 May 2023, launch the annual Child Protect Week campaign in Hout Bay, Cape Town.

25 April 2023, Johannesburg - South Africa is the latest Southern African Development Community (SADC) partner country to enter into an international development cooperation agreement with the German Cooperative Raiffeisen Confederation (abbreviated DGRV in German), an Apex Cooperatives Body in Germany with over 20 million members. GCRC has ties with more than 30 other countries, to provide consultancy and aid to develop cooperative systems and structures aiming at a sustainable development of the cooperative sector.

A now 90 year old beacon of hope for the blind and visually impaired community, in and around Cape Town, continues to stand strong in fulfilling its mission to provide a wide range of empowerment, educational, employment, and development services to children, the youth, and elderly persons who are born blind or come into visual impairment through various medical conditions and increasingly trauma related blindness.

National Development Agency Board

The National Development Agency (NDA) and Alliance of NPO Networks will on Monday, 27 February 2023, host the annual World NGO Day in South Africa. The commemoration will pay tribute and celebrate NGOs / NPOs / CBOs for the quality services they continue to offer to ordinary and vulnerable citizens to address social ills and deliver critical essential services - together with other various sector stakeholders across the country.

The National Development Agency is a Schedule 3A National Public Entity with a mandate for poverty eradication and is accountable to Parliament through the Minister of Social Development.

The National Development Agency (NDA) hereby Requests for Proposals from Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) that implement programmes and projects that address poverty and support vulnerable people in communities.