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of services, and have correspondingly diminished funding to the non-governmental organisation (NGO) sector. She argues underfunding has created a two-tier system of care, in which government services are considerably better resourced than NGO counterparts. Further exacerbating NGOs’ situations is the
Department's late payment of their subsidies. In the Eastern Cape, reports have been made that the DSD is only subsidizing 40-50% of care for home-based and community care for seniors, leaving vulnerable seniors to pay for the remaining costs themselves. Demonstrating that the DSD lacks financial capacity to provide social services. Similarly, criticisms have also been leveled that the government is providing insufficient funding for the provision of shelters and services for women and LGBTQ victims of gender-based violence. During the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, the government also faced backlash over its failure to provide food distribution to those in need, particularly school-aged children.
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