Customer care
012 312 7727
Email us
Customercare@dsd.gov.za
Head office
HSRC Building, Pretoria
We provide social protection and developmental welfare services so that poor, vulnerable and excluded people can secure a better life — in partnership with communities, SASSA, the NDA and civil society.
The Department provides social protection services and leads government’s efforts to forge partnerships through which vulnerable individuals, groups and communities become capable and active participants in their own development.
SASSA administers older persons, child support, disability, foster care and SRD grants on behalf of the Department.
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24-hour psychosocial support for survivors of gender-based violence. Call 0800 428 428 or send a Please Call Me to *120*7867#.
Queries, complaints and service requests: 012 312 7727. Head office at the HSRC Building, Pretoria.
In July 2000 the Department of Welfare was renamed the Department of Social Development. We are committed to the agenda of social transformation embodied in the principle of social justice and the Bill of Rights.
Our task is to develop and monitor social policy that reduces poverty, ensures social protection and welfare services, and creates conditions for sustainable livelihoods — from early childhood through to older persons.
Read our mandateThe Department provides social protection services and leads government’s efforts to forge partnerships through which vulnerable individuals, groups and communities become capable and active participants in the development of themselves and society.
Vision: A caring and self-reliant society
Income support for older persons, children, people with disabilities and households in distress, delivered with SASSA.
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Care and protection, foster care, adoption, ECD support and child and youth care centres under the Children’s Act.
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Shelters, psychosocial support and coordination of Pillar 4 of the National Strategic Plan on GBVF.
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Community-based care, residential facilities and Active Ageing programmes under the Older Persons Act, 2006.
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Prevention, treatment and reintegration aligned to the National Drug Master Plan and the Central Drug Authority.
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Sustainable livelihoods, food and nutrition, NPO partnerships and household profiling in all nine provinces.
Learn more →National campaign with shelters, the GBV Command Centre and provincial departments.
Active Ageing and community events with the South African Older Persons Forum.
Mpumalanga — taking Social Development services to residents.
Leads the national social development mandate, including social assistance, welfare services and the DSD entities.
Supports the Ministry in overseeing welfare services, community development and stakeholder partnerships.
Heads the administration of the Department and coordinates delivery with SASSA, the NDA and provinces.
Download the latest tenders, NDA forms, reports and official publications from the Department.
Files open from the official Department website: dsd.gov.za
We are committed to Batho Pele — People First. Use customer care for service queries, or the GBVF Command Centre if you or someone you know is in danger.
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