The document outlines the department’s priorities for the period of five years in line to give effect to the seven priorities of the Medium-Term Strategic Framework 2019-2024.

The Policy on Financial Awards to Service Providers in the social development sector is primarily aimed at ensuring that government, together with the non-governmental sector, and where appropriate, private sector organisations, achieve the mission of the department namely “to enable the poor, the vulnerable and the excluded within the South African society to secure a better life for themselves.

This policy review considers sanitation policy positions across the entire sanitation value chain that includes the collection, removal, disposal or treatment of human excreta and domestic wastewater, and the collection, treatment and disposal of industrial wastewater. It also outlined the categories under the 7 pillars of sanitation services policy.

The purpose of the National Water Resource Strategy (NWRS) is to ensure that national water resources are managed towards achieving South Africa’s growth, development and socio-economic priorities equitably and sustainably over five to ten years.

The Strategy is premised on the respect for culture and heritage and responsible tourism. Its strategic objectives are to increase domestic tourism revenue (expenditure) and volume, to improve measures and efforts aimed at addressing seasonality and equitable geographical spread and to enhance the level of the culture of travel and tourism among South Africans.

The primary objective of this programme is to promote and facilitate the empowerment and participation of women in human settlements delivery value chain through the allocation of 30% target of the department’s budget for women-owned projects. Its fundamental principles include gender equity, diversity and partnerships.

This guideline document is designed to provide guidance on the process and procedures to be followed in applying for a water use authorization. It also provides information that is required from the applicant at the various stages of the water use authorisation process and guidance on the evaluation mechanisms and conditions under which an authorisation for the use of water for Aquaculture can be granted.

The policy is designed based on the value-added principles that People’s Housing Process can provide a mechanism to facilitate the flow of resources from government to resource-poor groups and provide mechanisms that are accountable and responsive to a participatory approach. This approach will empower the beneficiaries and also crate various partnerships.

This policy defines the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry’s obligations in regulating and facilitating the use of water for aquaculture and establishes the basic principles and aims for this. Therefore, it provides a foundation and clarifies the approach for the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry (DWAF) to regulate and facilitate the use of water and associated water related infrastructure for aquaculture within its mandate as custodian authority over water resources in South Africa.

The goal of this policy is to provide an opportunity for the diversification of tourism products and the formalisation of the segment or niche of heritage and cultural tourism, towards contributing to the growth of tourism as outlined in the objectives of the National Tourism Sector Strategy 2011.

The HIV & AIDS & STI Strategic Plan provides a broad framework for government, Non-Governmental Organizations, businesses, organized labour, women’s organizations and all sectors of society in responding to HIV and AIDS and STIs.

This policy details the level of pollution risk posed by cemeteries to the quality of the water resource, especially the quality of drinking water. It also recognizes the potential of pollution caused by poorly sited cemeteries.

This version of the National Water Resource Strategy is designed to provide the framework within which water resources will be managed throughout the country.

This policy framework has the objectives to ensure coordinated action at national, provincial, district and local level to realise the rights of orphans and other children made vulnerable by HIV and AIDS, their caregivers, families and communities and to ensure that legal, policy and institutional frameworks for the protection and promotion of the rights of affected children are implemented at all levels.

An Act to consolidate the laws relating to the manufacture, storage, sale, transport, importation, exportation and the use of explosives. It emphasizes that no person shall manufacture any unauthorized explosive unless it is manufactured not for sale and solely for purposes of chemical experiment or for practical trial as an explosive and in such quantities and under such conditions as may be prescribed in writing by an inspector.

This is an Act to provide for certain prohibitions in respect of the possession of dangerous weapons, to repeal the Dangerous Weapons Acts in operation in the areas of the erstwhile South Africa, Transkei, Bophuthatswana, Venda and Ciskei, as those areas were constituted immediately before 27 April 1994, to amend the Regulation of Gatherings Act, 1993 (Act 205 of 1993), and the Firearms Control Act, 2000 (Act 60 of 2000) and to provide for matters connected therewith.

This document provides guidelines on the taking and preservation of a DNA sample, conducting of comparative searches, destruction of DNA reference samples and buccal samples and notification of court findings.

Oral disease levels appear to be increasing in major sectors of the South African population, especially the underserved, disadvantaged and urbanizing communities. Therefore, this strategy aims to improve the oral health of the South African population by promoting oral health and preventing, appropriately treating, monitoring and evaluating oral diseases.

This document provides information on exemption in respect of distribution of certain publications and films, prohibitions, offences and penalties on distribution and exhibition of films, games and publications and obligations of internet access and service providers.

This is an Act to give effect to the constitutional right of access to any information held by the State and any information that is held by another person and that is required for the exercise or protection of any rights and to provide for matters connected therewith.