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Directorate: Ms Sindi Dube (Acting Director)

Deputy Director: Vacant

Mandate

  • To develop, facilitate and monitor the implementation of effective policies and strategies on integrated social welfare services that meet the needs of all vulnerable groups.
  • To implement comprehensive social welfare services focusing on all vulnerable groups. (families, older persons, disabilities, children, Ex-servicemen, substance abuse people, persons affected with HIV/AIDS)
  • To provide an affordable, accessible, comprehensive social security system that prioritizes the most vulnerable.
  • Administer the OVC school bursary and that of the elderly.

Programmes and services offered

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Qualification Requirements

  • You must
  •  Have turned 60 years or more
  • Be a Swazi Citizen or permanent resident
  • Live in Swaziland
  • Not receive any other social grant for self

How much do you get? And method of payment

  • E240.00 per month be paid
  • Cash at designated Swazi Post offices as per your region
  • Electronic deposit to your bank account
  • NB – No cash without ID card

How to apply for an elderly grant?

  • Go to Tinkhundla with the following
  • National Identity card
  •  Proof of income or dividends (if any)
  • Complete form at the Tinkhundla Centre

How long does the process take?

  • The application process may take up to 3 months and the service is free of charge

Suspension and lapsing of grant

  • Death of a beneficiary
  • Non claim of grant for three consecutive months
  • Fraudulent claims (forging and misrepresentations)


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[item title="OVC EDUCATION GRANT"]

Grant officially introduced by His Majesty King Mswati III in his 2003 opening speech for parliament

SELECTION CRITERIA

  • The child must be a Swazi Citizen
  • Possess a Personal Identity Number (pin)
  • Attend an officially recognised school
  • Needy single or double orphan
  • Needy vulnerable child
  • Have unemployed parents with no source of income
  • Be without parents and staying with needy grandparents
  • Should be from a child headed household
  • Should have mentally or terminally ill parents
  • Should have disabled parents
  • Disabled child but is able to attend school

IDENTIFICATION OF POTENTIAL BENEFICIARIES

  •  Any interested party can identify a potential beneficiary and refer him or her to a relevant resource system such as Social Welfare Offices and relevant School committees

PAYMENT OF FUNDS

  • Funds for approved beneficiaries are paid electronically through respective school bank accounts
  • All examination fees for OVC affected by external examinations are paid by government at the beginning of the first term on annual basis


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[item title="EX-SERVICE MEN (UMSIZI)- MILITARY PENSION"]

Ex-servicemen are war veterans who served in the 1st and 2nd World Wars.  Government provides social assistance to all living ex-servicemen and widows.

SELECTION CRITERIA

  • The applicant must have served in either the 1st or 2nd World War
  • Must be a Swazi Citizen
  • Possess a Personal Identity Number (pin)
  • Must not be in receipt of any other Social Assistance Grant

IDENTIFICATION OF POTENTIAL BENEFICIARIES

  • Application for assistance are made at any Regional Social Welfare Offices and Tinkhundla Centres.

PAYMENT OF FUNDS

  • Payment of funds is by the mode for cheques through the Regional Social Welfare Offices and at the Tinkhundla Centres on Monthly basis.

 WHAT HAPPENS IF AN EX-SERVICEMEN DIES

  • Financial assistance stops and the wife applies for social assistance under the same program.  In an instance when there is no wife the grant is stopped immediately.

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Caters for the care, protection and general welfare of children

AREAS OF FOCUS

  • Children who are not properly maintained
  • Neglected children
  • Abused children
  • Orphans
  • Children living in difficult circumstances
  • Street children
  • Young offenders
  • Children infected  / affected by HIV and AIDS

MAIN ACTIVITIES IN THE PROGRAM

  • Action all reported matters of non-maintenance of children
  • Provide education and counselling to parents, guardians and relatives who neglect, abandon and abuse children
  • Promote foster care


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Documents (Downloadable)

DISABILTY POLICY (17.5 MB)

SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT POLICY (8.44MB)

NATIONAL DISABILITY PLAN OF ACTION (1MB)

THE SEXUAL OFFENCES AND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ACT 2018 

Social Welfare Offices

Head Office:

 P. O. Box A33, Swazi Plaza

Mbabane

Telephone:

+268 24042726

Contact Person:  

Director:  Moses Dlamini

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Principal Social Welfare Officers

Simanga Maseko                              

Mbabane Regional Office:               

Box 45

Mbabane             

Telephone: 2404 4640

Sub Regional Office

Pigg’s Peak                                      

Box 26,  Pigg’s Peak

Telephone: 2437 1939

Contact Person:

Mfanawenkhosi Simelane

Senior Social Welfare Officer

Manzini Regional Office:

Box 13, Manzini

Telephone: 2505 6444

Contact Person:

Ms. Nondumiso  Sikhosana

Senior Social Welfare Officer

Sub-Regional Office

Mankayane

Box 44, Mankayane

Telephone: 2538 8036

Contact Person:

Nondumiso Sikhosana

Senior Social Welfare Officer    

Nhlangano Regional Office:            

Box 8, Nhlangano

Telephone:  207 8422/3

Contact Person:

Mr. Simanga Maseko

Senior Social Welfare Officer

Sub-Regional Officer:            

Hlathikhulu                                               

Box 21 ,Hlathikhulu

Telephone :   217 6326

Contact Person:                                

Ms. Nondumiso Sikhosana

Senior Social Welfare Officer                                

Lubombo Regional                

Siteki

Box 20, Siteki

Telephone : 3434 457

Contact person: Fikile  Lukhele

Senior Social Welfare Officer

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