SSL-21-S1

Giyane Matoase
Student: 67709982
Assignment 02

a) “Social Security comprises of funding from national income tax and payments into
insurance-based funds, and overseen by the ministry of social development”. In
other words, it is funded by contributions that are normally shared among employers,
employees, and sometimes the state. (through supplementary contributions or
other subsidies from general revenue)
This is to protect against ill-health, unemployment, old age, the death of
breadwinners, employment injuries and diseases, road accidents, pregnancy, and
invalidity or disability.

b) Section 35 of COIDA (Compensation for Occupational Injuries and Diseases Act of

1993), only applies to employees as defined in the Act.
Therefore, a person can claim under ODIMWA (Occupational Diseases in Mines and
Works Act of 1973) and, if not recovered by ODIMWA, he/she can claim damages
from his/her employer under common law. [Mankayi v AngloGold Ashanti]
If you get injured, contract a disease or die while working, you or your
dependents can claim from the Compensation Fund. The fund pays compensation
to permanent and casual workers, trainees, and apprentices who are injured or
contract a disease in the course of their work and lose income as a result.

c) Social Assistance looks at various grants provided for in terms of the Social
Assistance Act 13 of 2004. The administration of social grants, social relief as a
form of assistance given to people who suffered hardships caused by the state, and
challenges facing the provision of social assistance in South Africa. In other words,
Social assistance refers to the assistance rendered by the society to the poor and
needy persons voluntarily without placing any obligation on them to make any
contribution to be entitled to relief such as workmen’s compensation, maternity
benefit, and old-age pension, etc. Thus, one may say that a social assistance
scheme provides benefits for persons of small means granted as of right in an
amount sufficient to meet a minimum standard of need and financed from taxation.

Social Insurance looks at the various risks or contingencies covered by social

insurance in South Africa. It is the security that the state furnishes against the risks
which as an individual of small means cannot stand up by himself or even in private
combination with his fellows. It originally signifies the measures during the period
when the wage-earning capacity of a worker is adversely affected during sickness
industrially disability, unemployment, or old age. In the life of a man, there are two
stages of dependency i.e., childhood and old age.

The social security system in this country makes provision for legal remedies and
adjudication measures through various pieces of legislation. In this regard the
country has the social assistance statutes, for example, the Social Assistance Act 13
of 2004, and social insurance statutes such as the Unemployment Insurance Act of
2001.
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NAME: GIYANE
SURNAME: MATOASE
STUDENT NO. 67709982
MODULE: SSL2601-21
ASSIGNMENT 2
SIGNATURE: G.G.Matoase DATE: 2021/05/11

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Social Development Portolio Committee 2003
SAHRC 2000/01, 2002/03
UNDP Approach (United Nations Development Programme)
1997 Whitepaper- Social Welfare
Neo Liberal Macro Economic Policy 1996
Union of South Africa 1910
Basic Social Safety Net, introduced 1937
Taylor Commission 9 (Introduction of Basic Income Grant) BIG
Liebenberg & Tilley 1998