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Social Development​

Overview

The Social Development department of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality is focused on advancing human development by addressing poverty, inequality and social exclusion across the city.

It seeks to enable vulnerable and disadvantaged households to access social-support mechanisms and safety nets, promote inclusion of women, youth, older persons, persons with disabilities and migrants, and build community resilience through skills development, empowerment initiatives and social mobility programmes.

The department is mandated to :​
 
• Assist with opportunities to enable people moving out of poverty wherever possible but also assisting those chronically vulnerable to manage their many challenges and achieve a dignified standard of living
• Improve access by poor and vulnerable households to social support programs and safety nets provided by the City and where possible reduce household dependency on the City
• Work with children, women, youth, older persons, PWDS, families and communities to assist them to successfully manage life tasks in the face of social disadvantage 
• Activate the private sector and civil society to act in a positive and transformational manner that is aligned to that of the City
• To identify potential economic opportunities at the community level, design and deliver community based training programmes through local public and private training providers and provide the necessary post-training support
• The Department of Social development is involved in a pro poor approach in servicing and supporting vulnerable groups in the city by responding to the conditions of poor household poverty in Johannesburg and inequalities among residents with a specific focus on addressing generational inequality and social exclusion among residents.  
• The vulnerable groups being served includes the very poor, migrants, children, homeless people, food insecurity, youth, senior citizens, women, People with Disabilities, people suffering from substance abuse, and victims of crime and violence.
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Business Management Support
 
•Integrated business planning, performance monitoring and reporting
•Oversee and coordinate outsourced business functions
•Administration and archiving
•Committee Support
• Cluster integration
• Facility repairs and maintenance
• Contract management
• Support to office of Executive Head: Social Development  
Contact details: 011 407 7509​
 
 
Integrated Social Development Policy, Planning and Research
 
•Integrated Planning, Policy, Systems, Procedures, Modeling and Data
•Programme Design and Evolution, Trends Analysis
•Strategic Pilots
•Social Development Information Systems
•Strategic Partnering 
•Research- Coordination, Development and Implementation
•Coordination of the Development of Policies and Strategies
Contact details: 011 681 8184
 
 

The City of Johannesburg's Department of Economic Development is hereby inviting the youth who want to start Cooperatives.


The City is embarking on a drive to empower youth owned cooperatives with compliance, trainings and market access. Women and people with disabilities are encouraged to apply. 

Kindly download the form from the link or can be obtained at the regional offices

The forms must be submitted to Regional Offices from the 07th of November 2020 to the 11th of December 2020.

For more information, please you may contact: Malusi Mbusi 083 444 5555 malusim@joburg.org.za or Lawrence Selemakoro 083 571 5778 LawrenceS@joburg.org.za

Click here to download the Youth Cooperative Registration F​orm​

List of Regional Offices where forms will be drop-off:​

No.RegionPhysical Address
1Region A300 15th Road, Rantjies Park, Midrand                   
2Region B35 Symons Road, ACA Krans Building, Auckland  Park
3Region C

Roodepoort Civic Centre, 100 Christiaan De Wet Road, Florida Park

 

Randburg Civic Centre

Cnr Bram Fischer & Jan Smuts Avenue

Randburg

4Region D

Diepkloof Welfare Centre

13141 Martina Drive

Diepkloof Zone 1

 

Meadowlands Admin Office (47 Office near Ndofaya Mall)

293 Portion 7

Hekpoort

Meadowlands

 

Kopanong Hall

2332 Luthuli Street

Dobsonville

 

5Region E137 Daisy Street, Sandton
6Region F

CJ Cronje Building, 80 Loveday Street, Johannesburg

 

Eureka House

11th Street

La Rochelle

7Region G

Lenasia Civic Centre, Rose Avenue, Lenasia Ext 1 

 

Orange Farm Skills Centre

9125, Extension 5 Orange Farm

​Food processing is a way or technique implemented to convert raw food stuff into well-cooked and well-preserved eatables for both the humans and the animals. All these methods are used by food processing industry to give out processed or preserved foods for our daily consumption. Best quality harvested, slaughtered and butchered and clean constituents are used by food processing industry to manufacture very nutritious and easy to cook food products. Following are some techniques and methods used to convert food into processed or preserved food. 

 
Preservation process: this includes heating or boiling to destroy micro-organisms, oxidation, toxic inhibition, dehydration or drying, osmotic inhibition, freezing, a sort of cold pasteurization which destroys pathogens and various combinations of all these methods. 
 
Drying: this is probably the most ancient method used by humans to preserve or process their food. Drying reduces the water content in the product and lack of water delays the bacterial growth very much. Drying is the most common technique to preserve or process cereal grains like wheat, maize, oats, rice and barley. 
 
Smoking: many foods such as meat, fish and others are processed, preserved and flavored using smoke mostly in big smoke houses. This process is very simple as the combination of smoke to preserved food without cooking it and the aroma of hydrocarbons generated from the smoke processes the food and makes it even tastier to eat. 
 
Freezing: probably, it is the most common technique used in modern world to preserve or process the food both on commercial and domestic basis. This freezing is conducted in big cold storages which can stockpile huge amount of food stuffs which can be further used in some natural emergencies. A very big range of products can be frozen to preserve and process which includes some which do not need freezing when are in their natural condition.
 
Vacuum packs: in this method, food is packed in airtight bags and bottles in a vacuum area. This method is used in processing the food as the air-tight environment doesn’t provide oxygen needed by germs especially bacteria to survive. This then, prevents food from getting rotted.  
 
Salting: the method of salting is used in food processing as it sucks out the moisture from the food. This is done through the process of osmosis. Meat is the best example of the food processed by salting as nitrates are used very frequently to treat meat. 
 
Sugaring: the method of using sugar to preserve or process food is very frequent where it comes to preserve fruits. In this method fruits such as apples, peaches and plums are cooked with sugar until they are crystallized and then it is stored dry. Sugar is also used in combination of alcohol to make some branded alcohol and spirits. 
 
Pickling: in this method of preserving or processing food, food is cooked in chemicals and materials which destroy micro-organisms. This is very strictly kept in mind that these chemicals or materials are fit to eat for humans. These include brine, vinegar, ethanol, vegetable oil and many other types of oils. Pickling is very commonly seen in vegetables such as cabbage and peppers. 
 
These are some very common methods of preserving or processing food. These all will work only when processing and preserving is done under very strict rules and regulation set by the governments.​

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