Davids, RonelBalie, Monique2025-02-282025-02-282023https://hdl.handle.net/10566/20144The World Health Organization affirms that COVID-19 is an infectious respiratory disease that originated in China in 2019. COVID-19 was declared a global pandemic and, on the 27 March 2020, President Cyril Ramaphosa, implemented a national lockdown in South Africa after the first COVID-19 case on 05 March 2020. Social workers were among the first frontline workers globally and locally who rendered services during COVID-19. Social work supervision was crucial to support social workers during the rendering of these services. Social work supervisors however experienced challenges in rendering such support during a pandemic. The aim of the study was to explore and describe the challenges experienced by social work supervisors when rendering supervision to frontline social workers amidst COVID-19 within the Department of Social Development in the Cape Metropole. The researcher selected a qualitative research approach as it focused on the experiences from the perspective of those who were affected by the phenomenon. The researcher selected exploratory and descriptive research designs to explore and describe a relatively new phenomenon. The researcher used purposive sampling and selected participants according to specific inclusion criteria. Data collection comprised of ten interviews which provided rich data and continued until data saturation.enSocial workerSocial Work SupervisorSocial Auxiliary workerCOVID-19Supervisor SupportThesis