Lockdown Updates – Gauteng Line for Food Parcels – No answer
15th April 2020
Thulani Snake-Park ( Soweto)
By Thokozile Mntambo
Martha Mangani is a 65year old women. She lives in a two roomed shack with her two daughters in Thulani Snake-Park. Martha makes a living by selling peanuts in a street corner in Meadowlands. Since the lock down began she cannot put food on the table anymore.
Poor people were advised to stay at home and contact Gauteng on line number to get food parcels. Martha has contacted this number many times and her daughters have also sent an email, they only got a reference number. They’re still waiting today. She says that the lock down has only made her family to suffer and she is afraid that hunger will kill them before Covid-19.
