CS:2016 - SCHOOL ATTENDANCE BY AGE: -20
2.4.3 Income Profile and Indigent Support
Matatiele Local Municipality is characterized by high levels of unemployment and unequal distribution of income, this however is a characteristic seen in the rest of the country. 2016 community survey indicates that an average household size in Matatiele Local Municipality is 3.9. Poverty and unemployment are high in the area. According to SASSA (March, 2018) there are 62 144 beneficiaries, monthly grants in Matatiele. SASSA pay out an estimated R70 764 017 to these beneficiaries monthly. The dependency ratio is 78.3.
The Municipality has an Indigent support policy and an indigent register with 12100 households registered. The register is updated as and when new people need to be captured on an annual basis. Currently the indigent support is in the form of free basic electricity, non-grid energy, and alternative energy and refuses removal. The District municipality provides Indigent household provides 6 kilo litres of water per Household. Table below lists the beneficiaries and the type of service provided.
REFUSE AND RATES ELECTRICITY SOLAR TOTAL BENEFICIARIES
Beneficiaries 970 3453 7677 12100
DESCRIPTION AUDITED 2016/17 PRE AUDIT 2017/18 BUDGET 2018/2019
FREE BASIC SERVICES 11 213 526 14 000 000 14 000 000
TOTAL 11 213 526 14 000 000 14 000 000
An analysis of three (3) financial years indicates that the number indigent households increases each year. This also increases the budget allocation to provide the services. Since 2015, the budget for free basic services has increased. Municipal planning recognizes the need to focus strongly on poverty alleviation mechanisms as well as job creation, as well encouraging young people to create opportunities for themselves.
Applications for indigent subsidy are distributed before the start of the financial year with the aim of updating the register. The application period is not closed in a specific period and as a result the indigent register is updated as and when there are new applications that have been approved.
Indigent steering committee is not yet formulated. Indigent status and challenges thereof are reported on a monthly basis to management team. Updated registers are sent to ANDM for inclusion in the district registers.
The registers are also sent as and when required by the district municipality. There are challenges faced by the municipality in the provision of indigent support services; these include amongst others; Application forms incorrectly filled by applicants; Service providers claiming for beneficiaries not in the approved indigent register
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There is an indigent large gap in the income distribution among households in MLM. The table below indicates the average household income in Matatiele. 16.8% of the households in Matatiele have no form income. This is indicative of the high dependency on social grants and the number of indigent households.
Income Percentage
None income 16,8%
R1 - R4,800 7,3%
R4,801 - R9,600 13,5%
R9,601 - R19,600 27,5%
R19,601 - R38,200 19,8%
R38,201 - R76,4000 6,6%
R76,401 - R153,800 4,1%
R153,801 - R307,600 2,8%
R307,601 - R614,400 1,3%
R614,001 - R1,228,800 0,2%
R1,228,801 - R2,457,600 0,1%
R2,457,601+ 0,1%
Average household income- statssa.Census 2011 2.4.5 Poverty Levels and Indicators
The number of people in poverty is the number of people living in households that have an income less than the poverty income, i.e. the minimum income required to sustain a household according to the particular household size. Since poverty is multidimensional, thus having many factors that contribute to the a poor person’s experience of deprivation such as poor health, lack of education, in adequate living standard, lack of income, disempowerment amongst others. Therefore, the global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) is used to measure acute poverty, looking at the three dimensions of poverty i.e Health, Education and Living Standards .
Poverty indicators: Statistics South Africa .CS 2016.
32 2.4.5 Health Indicators
The following are the health indicators for the municipality
Indicator Rate ( Per 1000 Live
Births)
Ratio (Per 100 000 Live Births)
Under 5 mortality rates (2015-16) 13.1 n/a
Infant mortality rate (0-1, 2015 -16) 14.0 n/a
Maternal mortality in facility ratio n/a 129.9
: Health indicators; Department of Health, DHIS.
The indicators above are annualised. For the year 2013-14, the table indicates that 14 .0 (per 1000 live births) of the children died by the age of 1. The following have been identified as the common causes of Under 5 mortality:
Diarrhoea 6.7%, Pneumonia 10.1% and Severe/ acute malnutrition 24.5%.
HIV/AIDS ESTIMATES
The HIV+ estimates are calculated by using the prevalence rates from the HIV/AIDS model built by the Actuarial Society of Southern Africa (ASSA-2008). These rates are used as base rates on a provincial level. IHS slightly adjusted the provincial ASSA-2008 data to more accurately reflect the national HIV Prevalence rate per population group as used in the national demographic models. The ASSA model in turn uses the prevalence rates from various primary data sets, in particular the HIV/AIDS survey.
Conducted by the Department of Health and the Antenatal clinic surveys. Their rates are further adjusted for over-reporting and then smoothed.
NUMBER OF HIV+ PEOPLE - MATATIELE, ALFRED NZO, EASTERN CAPE AND NATIONAL TOTAL, 2006-2016[NUMBER AND PERCENTAGE]
Matatiele
Alfred
Eastern National
Matatiele as
% Matatiele Matatiele
of district as % of as % of Nzo
Cape Total
municipality province national
2006 17,400 72,000 622,000 5,320,000 24.2% 2.8% 0.33%
2007 17,400 72,000 626,000 5,370,000 24.2% 2.8% 0.33%
2008 18,400 74,100 631,000 5,400,000 24.8% 2.9% 0.34%
2009 18,900 75,500 643,000 5,480,000 25.0% 2.9% 0.34%
2010 19,900 77,900 660,000 5,590,000 25.6% 3.0% 0.36%
2011 19,700 78,000 676,000 5,680,000 25.3% 2.9% 0.35%
2012 19,900 78,600 691,000 5,760,000 25.3% 2.9% 0.35%
2013 19,800 79,700 712,000 5,880,000 24.8% 2.8% 0.34%
2014 20,500 82,200 736,000 6,010,000 24.9% 2.8% 0.34%
2015 21,100 84,600 760,000 6,130,000 25.0% 2.8% 0.34%
2016 21,800 87,200 786,000 6,280,000 25.0% 2.8% 0.35%
Average Annual growth
2006-2016 2.26% 1.93% 2.37% 1.67%
Source: IHS Markit Regional eXplorer version 1156
In 2016, 21 800 people in the Matatiele Local Municipality were infected with HIV. This reflects an increase at an average annual rate of 2.26% since 2006, and in 2016 represented 10.05% of the local municipality’s total population. Alfred Nzo District Municipality had an average annual growth rate of1.93% from 2006 to 2016 in the number of people infected with HIV, which is lower than that of the Matatiele Local Municipality. The number
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of infections in Eastern Cape Province increased from 622, 000 in 2006 to 786,000 in 2016. When looking at South Africa as a whole it can be seen that the number of people that are infected increased from 2006 to 2016 with an average annual growth rate of 1.67%.