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• Both the Minister and myself Championed District
Development Model (DDM) in our respective District
Municipalities, Lejweleputswa and Amajuba
Districts in advancing coordinated socio-economic
development these areas. To date the Department
has invested through the many interventions it
implemented through the DDM in achieving the One
Plan One Budget objectives of these District
Municipalities.
• During the reporting period, we continued to
participate in a number of high-level bilateral and
multilateral exchanges aimed at promoting South
Africa’s foreign policy goals, and integrating its
social development policies and programmes. To
this end, a country report on “Population, Food
Security, Nutrition and Sustainable Development in
South Africa” was developed for the 53rd session of
the United Nations Commission on Population and
Development (UNCPD). As champion of the NEXUS
initiative, the Department delivered a joint
ministerial statement on protecting Sexual and
Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) and
promoting gender-responsiveness in the COVID-19
crisis on behalf of 59 countries, to promote (SRHR)
and Gender Equality and Equity.
• The NEXUS is an innovative initiative to support a
group of cross-regional high-level government
officials in ensuring the highest support to SRHR at
crucial UN negotiations related to the Agenda 2030
and ICPD beyond 2014 follow-up processes. The
Department was nominated to serve as a Board
Chair of the Partners in Population and
Development (PPD) for a three year term
(2021-2023) at the 25th Annual Board meeting in
October 2020.

Our commitment to the ideal of establishing a caring
society will be tested by our efforts in practice, together
with our partners, towards achieving this goal. I would
like to thank the Minister, the Acting Director-General,
the staff of the department, our provincial counterparts,
and civil society organisations for their efforts and
support during the reporting period.

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Mrs H Bogopane-Zulu

Deputy Minister of Social Development

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