- Title
- An evaluation of the social welfare policy of the Eastern Cape provincial government
- Creator
- Plaatjies, René
- Subject
- Eastern Cape (South Africa) -- Social policy -- Evaluation
- Subject
- Social service -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Subject
- Public welfare -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Date Issued
- 2003
- Date
- 2003
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- MTech
- Identifier
- vital:10778
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10948/d1011328
- Identifier
- Eastern Cape (South Africa) -- Social policy -- Evaluation
- Identifier
- Social service -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Identifier
- Public welfare -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Description
- A background of serious disparities in past welfare policies, legislation and programmes, necessitated the need for a far-reaching new social welfare policy in South Africa. The adoption of the White Paper for Social Welfare by Parliament in February 1997, set the path for the new social developmental approach to social welfare, dealing with key substantive issues in addressing the restructuring of social welfare services, programmes and social security. The Eastern Cape Province is one of the poorer provinces in South Africa. Negative radio and print media reports on social welfare in the province in the past three years has made it clear that serious problems and disparities face the provincial department. Several of these media reports highlighted issues relating to poor service delivery and unacceptable conditions of underdevelopment and poverty still prevailing in the province. The Eastern Cape Welfare Department has been plagued by fraud and corruption, and in a report of the Eastern Cape legislature’s standing committee on welfare in 2001, it was found that fraudulent activities, corruption and misconduct by government officials are still prevalent in the welfare department. The objective of this research was to assess whether the Eastern Cape Department of Social Development (Welfare) is implementing this new social developmental approach to social welfare, as set out in the 1997 White Paper for Social Welfare.
- Format
- 147 leaves
- Format
- Publisher
- Port Elizabeth Technikon
- Publisher
- Faculty of Commerce and Governmental Studies
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
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