Mchunu said the Covid-19 pandemic required the strengthening of the state's capacity and an end to inefficient service delivery.
Residents of Olievenhoutbosch can be seen queuing to receive food parcels, 2 May 2020, Pretoria. Some residents claim to have been queuing since the previous day. Picture: Jacques Nelles
Officials from the Department of Social Development presented these figures to Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Social Development during a hybrid sitting on Friday. “Statistics SA projects the economic impact to leave about 50% of the population at risk of being food insecure. So more still needs to be done.”He also said the department needs millions more to deliver food parcels for the next three months.
Just more than R540 million had been spent on the food parcels. To date, R383 million had been spent in Gauteng, R41 million in Mpumalanga, R39 million in Limpopo and R40 444 025 in the Free State.
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