Sassa clarifies demise of much-needed food parcels

MANY South Africans live on social grants, with no other additional sources of income.

When food parcels were introduced at the outset of the lockdown necessitated by the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, it was a relief to many who are not able to put food on the table beyond what the monthly government grants can afford them.

In a shocking decision taken seemingly without much thought, the SA Social Security Agency (Sassa) decided to half the delivery of this very lifeline, the food parcels.

For those South Africans who have since been denied access to the food, the next step is to queue for the R350 relief grant, which they are never guaranteed as post offices often run out of funds, if their systems are not offline – the oft-quoted reason.

Don Makatile put questions to Paseka Letsatsi, Sassa spokesperson to get to the bottom of the suspension of the food