Some residents of Port Elizabeth threatened protests and to disrupt the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality from distributing food parcels to informal traders.
The traders have already lost two weeks of income due to the national lockdown to mitigate the spread of Covid-19.
“We redirected money meant for international travel and a portion of the marketing budget after the president banned international travel,” said Buyeye.reports. But some residents who gathered at the open field after word spread about the food parcels were not pleased. “This action is going to create problems between residents in this community. We can’t have one section of our society being preferred over others. We will have to protest and barricade Addo Road as usual until we get parcels like everyone else,” she said.
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