SOWETAN: The parcels include items such as maize meal, sugar beans, canned fish, peanut butter, tea leaves, powdered milk and toiletries.
SHOOT: Investigate Matome Rapola, manager in the HIV directorate now!
WHAT A WASTE: Tons of food parcels, meant for distribution to the needy, lie stacked in government warehouses in Botlokwa, Limpopo. PHOTO: MOYAHABO MABEBA
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While the poor are starving, tons of food parcels are gathering dust and going rotten in the South African Social Security Agency warehouse in Botlokwa, north of Polokwane. Some of the rotting food parcels were also being kept at the provincial department of health and social development’s warehouse, they said.
The parcels were brought in as part of a poverty alleviation programme aimed at feeding needy families – people on the waiting list for social and dependency grants and for tuberculosis and HIV-Aids outpatients.
When asked why the food parcels had not been distributed, Sassa officials claimed that Matome Rapola, manager in the HIV directorate, had placed a “moratorium” on its distribution.
When Rapola was contacted he said he was unable to talk to Sowetan since he was “attending a meeting”at the time.
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