The administrative ineptitude of the Department of Social Development has resulted in thousands of NGOs not being informed of the possibility that they may be deregistered.
It was reported today that more than 70 000 NGOs are either non-compliant with the Nonprofit Organisation Act or have been deregistered due to non-compliance. These include numerous well-known NGOs which have taken government to court for failing to deliver to South Africans. If these NGOs are not registered, and labelled as non-compliant, they could potentially lose their funding , not just from government, but also from other sources.
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