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Gauteng cuts funding for non-South African social workers

Non-profits will no longer receive provincial funding for immigrant workers, a move organisations say “goes against their very ethics and morals”

The Gauteng Department of Social Development will no longer fund non-South African social workers. Illustration: Lisa Nelson

The Gauteng Department of Social Development has introduced new funding clauses barring NPOs from using provincial grants to pay non-South African staff.
The department says social work is not a scarce skill and it has a database of 2,000 unemployed South African social workers.
But the Gauteng Care Crisis Committee says the problem is government’s failure to create employment pathways for graduates, not immigrants taking jobs.
People Opposing Women Abuse say the consequence of such a clause is that a Zimbabwean social worker who has served the organisation for 15 years, is fully documented and eligible for permanent residency, now faces losing her…

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