As the new year kicks off, there have been reports that many South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) beneficiaries didn’t receive their child support grant payments for January. For parents with young children, this is devastating.
SA Harvest team leader Ozzy Nel said on Friday that they had delivered 18 tonnes of food to 360 families. More families who asked for help were added to the database and will receive food parcels in the new year. He said the aim is to have helped 1,000 families with food by 9 January.
In South Africa, a country rich in resources and potential, it remains criminal that so many of our citizens go hungry. There is much we can do to help.