Pretoria, 27 March 2020: As the spread of COVID-19 surpass the 1000 mark amid the 21-days lockdown period in South Africa, the Deputy Minister of Social Development Ms Hendrietta Bogopane-Zulu calls on the public to recognise the particular vulnerability and needs of persons with disabilities.

Pretoria, 17 March 2020: Following the declaration of COVID-19 as a national disaster, the Minister of Social Development - Ms Lindiwe Zulu, met with the executives of the National Development Agency (NDA), the South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) and the South African Council for Social Service Professions to deliberate and agree on sector-wide precautionary measures to prevent further transmission and to reduce the impact of the COVID-19 at service delivery points.

As South Africa continues to battle the wave of Gender-based Violence and Femicide (GBVF) through various means and structures, the work of the Interim Steering Committee on GBVF is becoming evidently more important. Today the Committee held its second meeting in 2020, continuing its work of ensuring that there is a speedy response to the fight against GBVF.

REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS The National Development Agency (NDA) in partnership with the Department of Social Development and the Interim Steering Committee on Gender-based Violence and Femicide (IGBVF-SC) hereby Requests for Proposals from Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) that implement Victim Empowerment Programmes (VEP) in response to Gender-Based Violence and Femicide.

Budget Vote 17 Speech by the Minister of Social Development, Ms Lindiwe Zulu, MP to the National Assembly 11 July 2019 Parliament, Cape Town

The National Development Agency will, through a 13 part series partnership with the SABC, showcase best case studies of poverty eradication programmes funded over the years. More over, the projects will share challenges, survival and sustainability models that they have experienced.

With skilful hands and creative ideas, members of a KZN cooperative are creating marketable crafts that supplement their income and making a success of it despite their disabilities.

The Minister of Social Development, Ms Susan Shabangu, MP, appointed the new NDA Board with effect from 01 April 2019.

Limpopo - The National Development Agency (NDA) will on Tuesday, 11 December 2018, host National ECD awards ceremony at the Protea Hotel Polokwane. The awards will be held to honour top achievers within the ECD sector.