Social Development

Overview

The Social Development department of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality is focused on advancing human development by addressing poverty, inequality and social exclusion across the city.

It seeks to enable vulnerable and disadvantaged households to access social-support mechanisms and safety nets, promote inclusion of women, youth, older persons, persons with disabilities and migrants, and build community resilience through skills development, empowerment initiatives and social mobility programmes.

The department is mandated to :

• Assist with opportunities to enable people moving out of poverty wherever possible but also assisting those chronically vulnerable to manage their many challenges and achieve a dignified standard of living

• Improve access by poor and vulnerable households to social support programs and safety nets provided by the City and where possible reduce household dependency on the City

• Work with children, women, youth, older persons, PWDS, families and communities to assist them to successfully manage life tasks in the face of social disadvantage

• Activate the private sector and civil society to act in a positive and transformational manner that is aligned to that of the City

• To identify potential economic opportunities at the community level, design and deliver community based training programmes through local public and private training providers and provide the necessary post-training support

• The Department of Social development is involved in a pro poor approach in servicing and supporting vulnerable groups in the city by responding to the conditions of poor household poverty in Johannesburg and inequalities among residents with a specific focus on addressing generational inequality and social exclusion among residents.

• The vulnerable groups being served includes the very poor, migrants, children, homeless people, food insecurity, youth, senior citizens, women, People with Disabilities, people suffering from substance abuse, and victims of crime and violence.

Business Management Support

•Integrated business planning, performance monitoring and reporting

•Oversee and coordinate outsourced business functions

•Administration and archiving

•Committee Support

• Cluster integration

• Facility repairs and maintenance

• Contract management

• Support to office of Executive Head: Social Development

Contact details: 011 407 7509

Integrated Social Development Policy, Planning and Research

•Integrated Planning, Policy, Systems, Procedures, Modeling and Data

•Programme Design and Evolution, Trends Analysis

•Strategic Pilots

•Social Development Information Systems

•Strategic Partnering

•Research- Coordination, Development and Implementation

•Coordination of the Development of Policies and Strategies

Contact details: 011 681 8184

The City of Johannesburg's Department of Economic Development is hereby inviting the youth who want to start Cooperatives.

The City is embarking on a drive to empower youth owned cooperatives with compliance, trainings and market access. Women and people with disabilities are encouraged to apply.

Kindly download the form from the link or can be obtained at the regional offices

The forms must be submitted to Regional Offices from the 07^th of November 2020 to the 11^th of December 2020.

For more information, please you may contact: Malusi Mbusi 083 444 5555 malusim@joburg.org.za or Lawrence Selemakoro 083 571 5778 LawrenceS@joburg.org.za

Click here to download the Youth Cooperative Registration Form

List of Regional Offices where forms will be drop-off:

No.	Region	Physical Address
1	Region A	300 15th Road, Rantjies Park, Midrand
2	Region B	35 Symons Road, ACA Krans Building, Auckland Park
3	Region C	Roodepoort Civic Centre, 100 Christiaan De Wet Road, Florida Park Randburg Civic Centre Cnr Bram Fischer & Jan Smuts Avenue Randburg
4	Region D	Diepkloof Welfare Centre 13141 Martina Drive Diepkloof Zone 1 Meadowlands Admin Office (47 Office near Ndofaya Mall) 293 Portion 7 Hekpoort Meadowlands Kopanong Hall 2332 Luthuli Street Dobsonville
5	Region E	137 Daisy Street, Sandton
6	Region F	CJ Cronje Building, 80 Loveday Street, Johannesburg Eureka House 11^th Street La Rochelle
7	Region G	Lenasia Civic Centre, Rose Avenue, Lenasia Ext 1 Orange Farm Skills Centre 9125, Extension 5 Orange Farm

Food processing is a way or technique implemented to convert raw food stuff into well-cooked and well-preserved eatables for both the humans and the animals. All these methods are used by food processing industry to give out processed or preserved foods for our daily consumption. Best quality harvested, slaughtered and butchered and clean constituents are used by food processing industry to manufacture very nutritious and easy to cook food products. Following are some techniques and methods used to convert food into processed or preserved food.

Preservation process: this includes heating or boiling to destroy micro-organisms, oxidation, toxic inhibition, dehydration or drying, osmotic inhibition, freezing, a sort of cold pasteurization which destroys pathogens and various combinations of all these methods.

Drying: this is probably the most ancient method used by humans to preserve or process their food. Drying reduces the water content in the product and lack of water delays the bacterial growth very much. Drying is the most common technique to preserve or process cereal grains like wheat, maize, oats, rice and barley.

Smoking: many foods such as meat, fish and others are processed, preserved and flavored using smoke mostly in big smoke houses. This process is very simple as the combination of smoke to preserved food without cooking it and the aroma of hydrocarbons generated from the smoke processes the food and makes it even tastier to eat.

Freezing: probably, it is the most common technique used in modern world to preserve or process the food both on commercial and domestic basis. This freezing is conducted in big cold storages which can stockpile huge amount of food stuffs which can be further used in some natural emergencies. A very big range of products can be frozen to preserve and process which includes some which do not need freezing when are in their natural condition.

Vacuum packs: in this method, food is packed in airtight bags and bottles in a vacuum area. This method is used in processing the food as the air-tight environment doesn’t provide oxygen needed by germs especially bacteria to survive. This then, prevents food from getting rotted.

Salting: the method of salting is used in food processing as it sucks out the moisture from the food. This is done through the process of osmosis. Meat is the best example of the food processed by salting as nitrates are used very frequently to treat meat.

Sugaring: the method of using sugar to preserve or process food is very frequent where it comes to preserve fruits. In this method fruits such as apples, peaches and plums are cooked with sugar until they are crystallized and then it is stored dry. Sugar is also used in combination of alcohol to make some branded alcohol and spirits.

Pickling: in this method of preserving or processing food, food is cooked in chemicals and materials which destroy micro-organisms. This is very strictly kept in mind that these chemicals or materials are fit to eat for humans. These include brine, vinegar, ethanol, vegetable oil and many other types of oils. Pickling is very commonly seen in vegetables such as cabbage and peppers.

These are some very common methods of preserving or processing food. These all will work only when processing and preserving is done under very strict rules and regulation set by the governments.

The Social Support Programme for Senior Citizens is a response to the needs that were expressed by the senior citizens in the City. The programme is facilitated in partnership with service providers in the City at various community centres in the region to reach out to Senior Citizens in their areas. The programme comprises of different components that are meant to address the various aspects of the senior citizens’ lives.

The objectives of the programme are:

• To maintain and enhance the well-being of the elderly persons through a healthy life style by eating healthy balanced and nutritious meals as well as staying healthy through exercises

• To ensure that they are economically sustainable through Application for SASSA grant and ESP

• Promoting relaxation through visiting places of interest.

• Be part of a social club to enhance social support

• To empower the Senior citizens to be active in the community as long as possible.

According to the Women Empowerment Policy the unit is responsible for the implementation of Women Empowerment Programmes. The objectives of the programme are as follows:

• Promote women’s self-empowerment.

• Improve women’s economic status through involvement in skills development programmes.

• Minimise (in the short to medium term) the exposure of women to poverty and unemployment and eradicate it altogether in the long term.

• Ensure that women take their rightful place in society as equals.

• Reduce the vulnerability of women socio-economic exigencies.

• To Improved quality of life and development driven resilience for all.

• To provide women with access to information on education and training, employment, self- employment, citizenship and healthy lifestyle and wellbeing;

• To provide women with support in accessing exit opportunities

This programmes are done in the Women Empowerment sites in the Regions. The programmes done are:

- Empowerment programmes,

- Women and Safety programmes

- Young women’s Programme

- Programme fro sex workers in Region F

Women's Day Care Centres

Centre	Physical Address	Contact Person	Contact Numbers
Diepsloot	1131 Ingonyama Drive, Diepsloot Ext.2	Vacant
Home away from Home	Danie van Zyl Recreation centre (Temporary)	Muzi Shongwe	0824679439
Leratong	Leratong village	Vacant
Phiri Day care centre	44 Dingane str. Senaoane	Margaret Koena	0824634345
Rethabile (Sport and Rec)	452 Eastbank avenue Eastbank Altrec stadium	Busi Nkosi	0834662950
Klipfontein view (Sport and Rec)	1190 Lepellê street Klipfonteinview Klipfontein Multi-purpose Centre	Busi Nkosi	0834662950
South Hills Day care centres (Sport and Rec)	C/O Geneva & Karina Place	Vacant	011 6132464
Orange Farm Day care Centres (Sport and Rec)	Stand number 2896 extension 1, Orange Farm	Kelello Mpoyi	0118051011
Vlakfontein	4309 Kgotso/Hadade Drive	Kelello Mpoyi	0118051011

Persons with Disabilities (PWD) have been historically one of the marginalized groups in the society due to experience of discrimination, labelling and social exclusion.

The Department of Social Development PWD Sub-Unit is established to address the plight of PWDs through advocacy and empowerment programs, and to ensure that PWDs rights are upheld. Below are the 5 programmatic interventions as informed by the CoJ Policy for PWDs 2009 currently under review.

1. Prevention and Awareness: Activities that empower and educate PWDs, families and communities on issues related to PWDs to address challenges of social exclusion which leads to inaccessibility of services. These are done through information session, workshops or door to door campaigns.

2. Provision of Assistive Devices: Mechanisms to enable all citizens including PWDs to reach every destination by their streets and pathway systems, and ensure an environment that is accessible; e.g. provision of assistive devices such as wheelchairs, walkers, mobility canes. Done through partners such as the Rotary Club.

3. Skills Development and Job opportunities: The focus of the program is facilitation of acquiring adequate and relevant skills for possible future participation in the economy as well as linking to job opportunities.

4. Advocacy: interventions to ensure access to basic services to address fundamental human needs and promotion of human rights. This is done through referrals and linkage to various stakeholders for access to services and promotion of social inclusion of PWDs.

5. Facilitation of Support Group: Activities to expand the richness of human life through implementation and facilitation of various activities. It focusses on enhancing people’s opportunities and choices thereby encouraging self-reliance and self-worth

The Department is charged with the responsibility to promote active involvement of youth in service development, implementation and creating opportunities. It is also tasked with the responsibility of ensuring that all its programs and activities support youth and community mobilisation, job creation and social inclusion. Youth Development activities are centred around the Youth Advisory Centres and outreach programmes.

The CoJ Youth Advisory Centers (YACs) are walk-in centers where trained personnel provide information, counselling support, training and referral services to young people. YACs offer information and support across a wide range of issues and topics such as career guidance and entrepreneurship advice, job preparation, civic education and other life skills and provide referral services.

Objectives of the advisory centre are to:

•provide young people with access to information on education and training, employment, self- employment, citizenship and healthy lifestyle and wellbeing;

•provide young people with access to internet services for livelihoods information and computers for typing livelihood- related documents and telephone to secure appointment with relevant institutions;

•provide young people with career counselling (employment and self-employment);

•provide young people with support in accessing exit opportunities.

In the endeavour to ensure pro-poor development that addresses inequality, poverty and provision of meaningful redress, the skills development function primarily seeks to empower the targeted beneficiaries with soft and technical skills that will enable the communities to either be employable or start their own businesses.

Continuously, beneficiaries are placed in the following different training initiatives across the city: Plumbing, Basic Baking, Basic Sewing, Arts and crafts, Beading, Tie and dye, Generic management, jewellery making, basic first, computer training etc.

The City plays a critical role in the provision of skills centres for beneficiaries to access various training programmes. Training providers access funds privately and enrol learners to skills development programmes conducted at the City owned facilities free of charge to the beneficiaries.

Contact Details :

Skills Development Centres

No.	Regions	Skills Centre	Area	Address	Contact Person
1.	Region : A	Diepsloot Skills Centre	Midrand	383 Ngonyama Road, Diepsloo t.	Yvonne Phogole 082 497 0346
		Rabie Ridge	Midrand	Corner Koraan &kraai Avenue, Rabie Ridge.	Yvonne Phogole 082 497 0346
2.	Region: B	TDC Children services	Westbury	Colaradi Drive ,Riverlea.	Ntsoaki Molefe 073 601 0156
		Techno Centre	Randburg	Corner Bram Fischer & Jan Smuts road Randburg.	Ntsoaki Molefe 073 601 0156
3.	Region: C	Tshepisong Skills Centre	Tshepisong	5903 phase Tshepisong phase 4 Tshepisong.	Dorah Mashita 082 332 6805
		Leratong Skills Centre	Leratong		Dorah Mashita 082 332 6805
		Mathole Skills Centre	Roodepoort	Roodepoort Civic Centre,100 Christiaan de Wet Road Roodepoort	Dorah Mashita 082 332 6805
		Cosmo City skills Centre	Cosmo City	Stand 2633 164 Angola Ave and South Africa drive Cosmocity multipurpose centre Cosmo city.	Dorah Mashita 082 332 6805
4.	Region D	Pimville Skills Centre	Pimville	2943/50 Modjadji Pimville.	Phindi Erasmus 011 528 8500
		Sam Tambani Welfare centre	Meadowlands	Zone 9 Maseru street zone 9 Meadowlands.	Phindi Erasmus 011 528 8500
		Diepkloof Welfare Centre	Diepkloof	Zone 1 13141 Martinus Smuts Drive zone 1 Diepkloof .	Phindi Erasmus 011 528 8500
		Orlando Skills Centre	Orlando East	1425 Sofasonke street ,Orlando East.	Phindi Erasmus 011 528 8500
		Chiawelo Skills Centre	Chiawelo	989 Tshabuse street,Chiawelo .	Phindi Erasmus 011 528 8500
		Tladi Skills Centre	Tladi	2071 Matshunyana street,Tladi	Phindi Erasmus 011 528 8500
		Jabavu Skills Centre	Jabavu	1235 Mlangeni Street Jabavu/Moroka	Phindi Erasmus 011 528 8500
5.	Region: E	Klipfontein Skills Centre	Alexandra	No 1109 Lekoa Street Klipfontein View Multi-purpose Centre, Klipfontein.	Lebo Mathope 0824679442
		Sports and Rec Centre	Alexandra	Cnr Louis Botha Avenue and 13thstreet Orange Grove.	Lebo Mathope 0824679442
		Orange Groove Skills Centre	Orange Groove	Cnr Louis Botha Avenue and 13thstreet Orange Grove.	Lebo Mathope 0824679442
6.	Region: F	Betrams Skills Centre	Doornfontein	46 Bertrams road Bertrams.	Meshack Maluleke 083 397 6601
		Pioneer Park Skills Centre	Rosettenville	10 Bertha street Pioneer Park.	Meshack Maluleke 083 397 6601
		South Hills Skills Centre	South Hills	Corner Lindley & Geneva street ,South Hills .	Meshack Maluleke 083 397 6601
7.	Region: G	Orange Farm Skills Centre	Orange Farm	9125,Extention5 Orange Farm .	Daniel Selomo 011 850 1047
		Vlakfontein Skills Centre	Vlakfontein	4391 Hadeda Street, Vlakfontein Daniel Selomo	Daniel Selomo 011 850 1047
		Poortjie Skills Centre	Poortjie	737 Bheka Street, Poortjie.	Daniel Selomo 011 850 1047
		Ennerdale Skills Centre	Ennerdale	Corner katz & smith Walk Roads, Ennerdale Ext.9 .	Daniel Selomo 011 850 1047
		Zakheni Skills Centre	Ennerdale	Corner katz & smith Walk Roads, Ennerdale Ext.9.	Daniel Selomo 011 850 1047

Children's Services Programmes

Children's Services is responsible for programmes for children between the ages of 0-18 years of age. The following areas are addressed for children's services:

Early Childhood Development

Children's services provide various training programmes for ECD practitioners who are currently teaching or running an ECD programme. The training implemented ranges from a wide range of topics including:

Nutrition
Developmental Milestones
Growth Monitoring
Child Abuse
Basic ECD level
Compliance

Computer Clubhouse

The computer clubhouses is situated in 4 Regions. The computer clubhouse is an afterschool programme for children between the ages of 0-18 years old. Programmes which are provided to computer clubhouses. This includes the following programmes

Lady Programmes
Graphic Programmes
Video Production
Career Development
Holiday Programmes

Contact List and Physical Address for Regional Offices for Children's Services

Region	Name	Designation	Contact Number	Physical Address
A	Nomsa Madibogo	Child Care officer	083 444 7002	Ivory Park Skill Center, 3699/3700 Freedom Drive, Ivory Park, Ext 6
A	Siza Gumbi	Child Care officer	081 465 0959	Ivory Park Skills Center
A	Marcia Motswakae	Child Care officer	081 475 4336	1131, Ext 2, Ingonyama Street, Diepsloot
B	Nonhlanhla Mazibeni	Child Care officer	082 467 9534	Danie Van Zyl Skills Center, Corner Plantation and Rex Street, Newlands
B	Philile Maphumulo	Child Care officer	072 601 4953	Danie Van Zyl Skills Center, Corner Plantation and Rex Street, Newlands
B	Dimakatso Vena	Child Care officer	082 467 9342	Danie Van Zyl Skills Center, Corner Plantation and Rex Street, Newlands
B	Sandile Mlambo	Computer Clubhouse Operational Manager	072 071 1321	Randburg Clubhouse, 161, cnr of Braamfischer and Jan Smuts Avenue
C	Gloria Makane	Child Care officer	082 319 2318	Civic Center, 100 Christian De Wet, Florida
C	Elizabeth Mkhombo	Child Care officer	082 467 9536	Civic Center, 100 Christian De Wet, Florida
C	Nonkululeko Madela	Child Care officer	082 467 9340	Civic Center, 100 Christian De Wet, Florida
C	Grace Konopi	Child Care officer	082 467 9533	Civic Center, 100 Christian De Wet, Florida
D	Glory Morake	Operational Manager	082 465 5349	Yetta Nathan Skills Center, 10545 Carr Street
D	Pam Hendriks	Child Care Officer	072 601 5477	Yetta Nathan Skills Center, 10545 Carr Street
D	Angeline Chalatse	Child Care officer	082 467 9344	Yetta Nathan Skills Center, 10545 Carr Street
D	Molahlegi Sebei	Child Care officer	072 601 5729	Yetta Nathan Skills Center, 10545 Carr Street
D	Maria	Administrator		Yetta Nathan Skills Center, 10545 Carr Street
D	Malusi Dlamini	Computer Clubhouse Co-Ordinator	079 883 1078	Diokane Street, White City, Jabavu
E	Nhlanhla Khumalo	Child Care officer	082 467 9437	42-8^th Street Orange Grove
E	Maggie Mahlatsi	Child Care officer	072 277 1336	42-8^th Street Orange Grove
E	Sandile Shabangu	Child Care officer	072 601 4969	42-8^th Street Orange Grove
F	Ellen Thibedi	Operational Manager	082 452 9405	Eureka House cnr 92 Marlborough Road & Rosettenville Road
F	Grace Rooi	Child Care officer	078 463 7995/078 463 7995	Bertrams Skills Center, 46 Bertrams Road
F	Beauty Mkhabela	Child Care officer	082 572 4319	Bertrams Skills Center, 46 Bertrams Road
F	Sophie Maake	Child Care officer	082 467 9337	Eureka House cnr 92 Marlborough Road & Rosettenville Road
F	Thembelihle Mxotwa	Child Care Officer	065 926 8166	Eureka House cnr 92 Marlborough Road & Rosettenville Road
F	Lulama Mzinyathi	Administrative officer	011 681 8000	Eureka House cnr 92 Marlborough Road & Rosettenville Road
F	Salome Kanyane	Computer Clubhouse Co-Ordinator	071 361 9777	Bellavista Clubhouse, Zicorn Court, Cnr Bellavista Road and Lindique Drive, Bellavista.
G	Hellen Gqoba	Operational Manager	082 467 9255	5455 cnr Samuel & Smith Street, Ext 9, Ennerdale
G	Martha Oliphant	Child Care officer	082 300 8019	5455 cnr Samuel & Smith Street, Ext 9, Ennerdale
G	Reginah Mathe	Child Care officer	072 251 5014	5455 cnr Samuel & Smith Street, Ext 9, Ennerdale
G	Teboho Motubei	Computer Clubhouse Co-Ordinator	081 759 1528	15744/5 Ext 3, Orange Farm Skills Center

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