News and Speeches for Department of Social Development
Child Protection Week: Minister to sign MOU with Hessequa Municipality
2 June 2017As part of ongoing Child Protection Week commemorations, Western Cape Minister of Social Development, Albert Fritz, announced plans to enter into a formal memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Hessequa Municipality. Read More
Child Protection Week Dialogue: Min Fritz launches support group for parents
1 June 2017Today, Today, Western Cape Minister of Social Development, Albert Fritz, announced plans to coordinate Support Groups for parents who have lost children through violence and murder. Read More
Child Protection Week Church Service in Mitchells Plain
1 June 2017Today, Western Cape Minister of Social Development, Albert Fritz, will continue commemorating national Child Protection Week by attending a memorial church service in Mitchells Plain. Read More
Child Protection Week Dialogue to be hosted by Social Development Department
30 May 2017Tomorrow, the Western Cape Minister of Social Development, Albert Fritz will host the department’s flagship Child Protection Week Dialogue under the theme, “Child Protection is Everyone’s Business”. Read More
Child Protection Week door-to-door event in Mitchells Plain
29 May 2017Tomorrow, the Western Cape Minister of Social Development, Albert Fritz will officially launch the departments Child Protection Week commemoration with a door-to-door awareness activity in Mitchells Plain. Read More
Minister Fritz & Premier Zille launch Child Protection Week
29 May 2017As part of the Western Cape Department of Social Development (DSD) Child Protection Week awareness initiatives, Minister for Social Development, Albert Fritz, and Premier Helen Zille today conducted a door-to-door in Beacon Valley, Mitchells Plain. Read More
Child Protection Week – week planner
26 May 2017The Western Cape Department of Social Development will be commemorating national Child Protection Week with a series of events under the theme, “Child Protection is Everyone’s Business”. Read More
Visiting Flemish Minister to tour Youth Café with MEC Fritz
25 May 2017Today, the Flemish (Belgium) Minister for Culture, Media, Youth and Brussels Affairs, Sven Gatz, will join Social Development MEC, Albert Fritz, on a tour of the innovative and groundbreaking SOZO Youth Cafe. Read More
International Day of Families: Dept initiatives support parents and children
15 May 2017As we commemorate Mother’s Day and International Day of Families (tomorrow), the Western Cape Department of Social Development (DSD) remains committed to rolling out services that strengthen and build resilience within families in the province. Read More
DSD condemns murder of Courtney Pieters & will support family through grief
15 May 2017I condemn the murder of 3 year-old Courtney Pieters from Elsies River, Cape Town in the strongest terms possible. The child was reported missing earlier in the month, and tragically her concealed body was found last weekend near her home. Read More
Department to render support to family of missing Elsies River 3 year-old
8 May 2017The Western Cape Department of Social Development (DSD) has dispatched a social work team from the Elsies River local office to render support and offer counselling to the distraught mother of missing toddler, Courtney Peters. Read More
MINISTERS TO PAY VISIT TO NEW FIVE STAR GREEN KHAYELITSHA SHARED SERVICES CENTRE
7 May 2017Tomorrow, 8 May 2017, Western Cape Ministers of Transport and Public Works, Donald Grant, Health, Dr Nomafrench Mbombo, and Social Development, Adv Albert Fritz, will be conducting a site visit to the brand new “Five Star Gre Read More
Department launches EPWP partnership with FASfacts
7 May 2017Western Cape Social Development MEC, Albert Fritz, launched the groundbreaking EPWP ini Read More
MEC to launch EPWP initiative to combat Foetal Alcohol Syndrome in Hex River Val
4 May 2017Tomorrow, Minister Albert Fritz will continue the fight against Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) by launching an Extended Public Works Programme (EPWP) initiative in the Hex River Valley area. Read More
Department condemns murder of 4 year-old Khayelitsha girl
3 May 2017I strongly condemn the murder of 4 year-old Iyapha Yamile from Khayelitsha, Cape Town. The child was reported missing on Sunday, and tragically her body was found a day later near a local informal settlement on Monday. Read More
MECs join NGO to donate to Gugulethu’s school girls and elderly
19 April 2017Today, the Western Cape MEC for Social Development, Albert Fritz, accompanied by Education MEC, Debbie Schafer, joined NGO partner Al-Imdaad, to visit and make donations to a school and old age home in Gugulethu. Read More
Ministers and NGO to donate sanitary pads to Gugulethu school-girls
18 April 2017Tomorrow, as part of outreach efforts, the Western Cape Ministers of Social Development, Adv. Albert Fritz, Education, Debbie Schafer, and Human Settlements, Bonginkosi Madikizela, will join NGO partner, Al-Imdaad, to handover 200 packs of sanitary... Read More
Warrior Woman Business Brunch to be addressed by Minister Fritz
10 April 2017Tomorrow, Minister Albert Fritz will deliver an address at the Warrior Woman Business Brunch. The Minister will focus his address on the spates of women and child abuse/violence, with the message that the violence in our society is a serious... Read More
Department condemns recent brutal attacks on women and children
5 April 2017I strongly condemn the recent attacks on women and children in Cape Town. Read More
66 specialist substance abuse graduates to be addressed by Minister Fritz at UWC
4 April 2017Today, Minister Albert Fritz will address at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) Community Engagement Substance Abuse graduation ceremony. Read More
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