Donations big and small from 135,000 people in some of the country's poorest provinces have helped raise R1m for SA's Covid-19 Solidarity Fund. COVID19
The funds were raised via the Act for Change Fund operated at tillpoints at more than 700 Shoprite, Checkers and Usave stores countrywide since collection started on March 30.
Shoppers at Shoprite Middelburg in Mpumalanga made the single biggest contribution to the fund, consistently donating more than R1,500 a day since end-March, said the Shoprite Group. Checkers Mahikeng came out tops among the Checkers stores countrywide, followed by its supermarkets in the Kalahari Mall in Upington and in Kathu, both in the Northern Cape.
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