Cape Town delivered South Africa’s highest service reach to the homeless under lockdown
19 August 2020
The City of Cape Town delivered South Africa’s highest service reach to the homeless under lockdown, sheltering more than double the number of homeless compared to the whole of Gauteng. This is according to national Social Development statistics reported in Parliament.
We are therefore surprised that Brett Herron MPL raises an issue with the R44 million expenditure on weather-proof tents (at multiple sites across Cape Town) to shelter and care for the homeless under national lockdown regulations which explicitly mandated this.
Every rand was spent on caring for the homeless, with the following achieved:
- 1 352 homeless persons were provided with chronic and clinical treatment for conditions like TB, HIV, Diabetes, Hypertension and Epilepsy.