DA calls on MEC Lesufi to speed up distribution of food parcels as people are starving
13 May 2020
The Democratic Alliance (DA) in Gauteng is deeply concerned that some of our people who are desperate in need of food during this national lock-down period have not yet received any food due to delays in the distribution of food parcels.
Even though some of these people applied for food parcels a month ago they have not yet had any response from the Gauteng Social Development department.
The department made promises that the food parcels will be delivered within 48 hours and failed to meet its own time frame.
Most of our people who reside in informal settlements, townships and rural communities are living in fear of starvation because they have been unemployed since the national lockdown was implemented 46 days ago to help curb the spread of the potentially deadly COVID-19 virus.