The Social Development Department promotes the well-being of the people of the city through empowerment, economic development and the alleviation of poverty.

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• Miracle Theatre waits building funds
  January 2007
• Riding gives Sowetan children confidence
  January 2007
• Market looks towards job creation
  January 2007
• Joburg Carnival ready to rock
  December 2006
• The bioscope returns to the township
  November 2006
• Diepsloot set to join golfing set
  November 2006
• Children are the focus at Newtown festival
  November 2006
• Young offenders apologise for their actions
  NOvember 2006
• Summer brings the beach to Soweto
  October 2006
• Melville sets up a long table under the stars
  October 2006
• A hit-and-run in the night skies
  October 2006
• Poverty is high on City's agenda
  October 2006
• Children reap Public Transport Month benefits
  October 2006
• City's cultural hub lights up
  October 2006
• Newtown lights up for Diwali
  October 2006
• Prospecting for gold … 120 years on
  October 2006
• Birthday exhibition opens at Museum Africa
  October 2006
• Gandhi exhibition opened by prime minister
  October 2006
• Train surfing thrills bored youngsters
  October 2006
• India's leader remembers Gandhi
  October 2006
• Creche sets up bottle recycling project
  September 2006
• Bigger, better Insite exhibition
  September 2006
• Bigger and better Soweto Marathon on cards
  September 2006
• DD Dliwayo school plants trees for peace
  September 2006
• Othandweni Children's Home has a reason to smile
  September 2006
• Soweto Festival set to rock Tourism Month
  September 2006
• Joburg plans a Diwali birthday bash
  September 2006
• Art auction to help to fight abuse
  September 2006
• Media gurus to hold communications forum
  September 2006
• Road show notes Soweto progress, challenges
  September 2006
• Ramaphosa is JPO's new patron
  September 2006
• Orlando to benefit from 20 Townships programme
  September 2006
• Absa Soweto Festival to crown queen
  September 2006
• Leaving a green legacy in Greater Lenasia
  September 2006
• Joburg Business Week promotes SMMEs
  September 2006
• Metro police battle it out on sports fields
  September 2006
• Gandhi's Satyagraha centenary to be celebrated
  September 2006
• Sidewalk entertainment in Sandton
  September 2006
• Diwali Festival to ignite Newtown
  September 2006
• Thousands of trees planted in Soweto
  September 2006
• Plant a tree to celebrate spring
  September 2006
• Cyclists gear up for Joburg's toughest race
  August 2006
• Soweto's feast of brandy and wine
  August 2006
• Clinics promote Deaf Awareness Week
  August 2006
• Joburg opens arms to migrants
  August 2006
• Athletes prepare for Rockies race
  August 2006
• Spring into theatre mode
  August 2006
• Joy of Jazz workshops for aspiring musicians
  August 2006
• Over R1,5m raised at mayoral charity golf day
  August 2006
• Meet Jozi's jazz pioneer
  August 2006
• Athletes line up for Vodacom race
  August 2006
• Speaker promotes skills development
  August 2006
• Mayoral golf day to raise funds for charity
  August 2006
• Jozi gets ready for Gauteng carnival
  August 2006
• Ivory Park roadshow expands horizons
  July 2006
• Picasso mural adds joy to hospital school
  July 2006
• Blankets for Ivory Park children
  July 2006
• Mayoral programme provides blankets of love
  July 2006
• Pull up a book with Jenny & Co
  May 2006
• Launch of youth month in Soweto
  May 2006
• Girl children learn to fight fire
  May 2006
• Teeing off for Lifeline
  May 2006
• Men discuss being part of the solution
  May 2006
• Men urged to talk about challenges
  May 2006
• Mother's Day is all wrapped up
  May 2006
• Murray Park Library launches book club
  May 2006
• Third Madiba comic now available
  May 2006
• City mourns passing of Ellen Kuzwayo
  April 2006
• Thousands benefit from Mayoral Aids Fund
  April 2006
• City managers take a taxi to Soweto
  March 2006
• Five Doornkop families get houses
  March 2006
• Local leaders to visit Jozi
  March 2006
• Taking dance to the kasi
  March 2006
• Fashionistas: get your design caps on
  March 2006
• Festival explores reconciliation over revenge
  March 2006
• Very crazy concert planned for Kliptown
  March 2006
• Brenda Fassie lives on in bronze
  March 2006
• Catch afire with the tango
  March 2006
• Dance Umbrella wows audience
  March 2006
• Spend a night in Africa with Picasso
  March 2006
• Spain comes to Roodepoort
  March 2006
• Fundamentalism at the core of Full Circle
  March 2006
• Just So … enchants a delighted audience
  March 2006
• Youth advisory centre to open in Eldorado Park
  March 2006
• Performing Arts Library is a music researcher's dream
  March 2006
• Young actors prepare for The World of Beatrix Potter
  March 2006
• Traders taught business skills
  February 2006
• Diepsloot families get new, safer houses
  February 2006
• City extends another helping hand to the poor
  February 2006
• City offers 20 Wits bursaries
  February 2006
• Zola and market race to help children
  January 2006
• The Makeba girls of Midrand
  January 2006
• Kids get lessons from their heroes
  January 2006
• Senior citizens treated to lunch
  December 2005
• Workshop focuses on morality
  December 2005
• Alexandra's Kidz Clinic turns two
  December 2005
• Disabled people show their mettle
  December 2005
• Disabled kids party in park
  December 2005
• Early Christmas for Region 4
  November 2005
• Mayor urges return to morals
  November 2005
• City adds burial package to help poor
  November 2005
• Food Bank feeds needy
  November 2005
• Thousands of poor register for subsidy
• Minister opens Siyakhana project
  September 2005
• Chess keeps kids off streets
  July 2005
• Warm gifts for city's poor
  July 2005
• Indigent register is successful
  July 2005
• City extends helping hand to poor
  April 2005
• Mayor's charity tour of the northern region
  November 8, 2004
• City's old age home impresses visitors
  February 18, 2004
• Where the disabled work in dignity
  February 12, 2004
• Food for the mind - and the body
  March 10, 2003
• A new centre brings social services closer to Soweto
  March 7, 2003
• Shilowa reaches out to the poor
  February 24, 2003
• New self-help centre for Vlakfontein
  February 10, 2003
• Strike to hit Welfare Department's service delivery
  January 20, 2003