Department of Social Development - Public Information: H | Western Cape Government

Department of Social Development - Public Information: H

General information publications, listed alphabetically. These documents are also placed under the relevant life events and categories in Your Life and Topics.

Find out how and where to get help for young people that’s still at school and displaying emotional and behavioural problems which, currently or in future, may lead them to be in trouble with the law.

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The Western Cape High Court has confirmed that nearly all categories of sex offenders are immune from punishment in South Africa due to loopholes in the Sexual Offences Act. The court upheld a decision by the Riversdale magistrate's court that a respondent charged with forcibly fondling a woman could not be sentenced because there is no penalty for such behaviour in the new Sexual Offences Act.
Businesses and individuals can support people with intellectual and physical disabilities by supporting the services and products produced by the workshops to which they belong.