The images from the neighbouring slums of Mooiplaas and Spruit, on the outskirts of the capital Pretoria, show the extent of need that South Africa’s economic lockdown has generated among many who even before the pandemic were living a hand-to-mouth existence.About 90 percent of the inhabitants of these informal settlements are foreigners or undocumented migrants from other southern African nations like Zimbabwe, Yusuf Abramjee, a spokesman for the charity coalition said by telephone.
They do not qualify for food aid from a government busy attending to its own large numbers of impoverished citizens. The footage shot on Wednesday and reviewed by Reuters shows a dirt track flanked by bush, large patches of which are burnt or covered in rubbish, and iron-roof shanty towns. In places the queue looks orderly; in others, it disintegrates into a crowd.
“That just shows you the levels of desperation that we have,” said Abramjee. “I’ve not seen anything on this scale, not these levels of poverty and hunger in South Africa. It’s heartbreaking,” he said, adding the queue was 4 km at one stage.South Africa has spent five weeks under restrictions requiring most of the population of about 58 million to stay at home, apart from essential trips.
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Now tell me if this lockdown is not self-defeating.
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Good Lord, this is crazy
City of centurion? Wow!
Please show one report of donations to white people, the distributors doesn't have to be black. I dare you, if you are human. turnSAback2God
May I please have a food parcel as well, I'm a construction worker based in Riversands, Fourways area.
8000 food parcel for thousands of people half plastic bags what a strong message send to Africans indeed Tambo will cry when he sees us like this I beg you my Africans Vuka darkie
This is a sanctioned Food Parcel delivery that went smoothly. Many parties on board to keep order. 8000 parcels distributed without incident. What you’re seeing is a great day for food distribution, if you’re a family getting food and an NPO giving food!
maggsnaidu Where in South Africa is this? I doubt is only one area. Lot of videoshop here
ANC communists enjoying every single minute of this. This is heartbreaking!
Dear in south africa we are living in a reversed apartheid system where whites are classed as second class citizens with the BEE system. please help us to pressure nationalists ANC government to reverse their business killing policies! helenzille Our_DA
I wonder what Joe Biden thinks about this?
It is a sorry state in South Africa for both the poor and middle classes. It is made worse by ruling party officials who have been caught stealing food parcels or only handing them out to members of the ruling MYANC. Foreigners & refugees get nothing.
Sadly mainly a result of a thieving and incompetent anc “govt” that had ruined and impoverished our country before the virus, and is now exacerbating it with ridiculous lockdown regulations. And even more sadly ironic is that most of these folk consistently re-elect them.
Blame apartheid now? Blame a failed afronazi regime
You get what you vote for. Repeatedly. If you vote for Marxist Terrorists don’t be surprised when they destroy the economy and you end up within a Marxist state with no liberties.
Hello Mr CyrilRamaphosa where are you? lockdown starvation SouthAfricaLockdown COVID
IMFNews WorldBank EU vonderleyen realDonaldTrump BorisJohnson ScottMorrisonMP THIS IS WHAT THE ANC GVT HAS DONE TO THE PEOPLE OF SOUTH AFRICA! WE HAVE LOST 103 PEOPLE TO WUHAN VIRUS! SMALL IN COMPARISON TO THE 58 PEOPLE MURDERED A DAY...NOT TO MENTION FARM MURDERS
This is not South Africa you fools
Show Americans queuing for food aid because they are lining up the streets as well. And all of you here with your nasty comments, gfys. It's not your governments have done a better during this crisis. Fesekani!
This is just heart breaking! How can this be allowed to be happening, PresidencyZA
Ohho so Centurion looks exactly like Lipompo☝️Got it 😉
We should also be shown images of Africans being discriminated in China Or that's not important news, you're only interested in taking pictures of people queuing for food?
And yet not a mention about the relief fund being based on race. If you are white, you are on your own, and get no help from this racist government.
Has the myanc blamed Apartheid yet?
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Queueing, amazing. Mind-boggling. Who else anywhere in the world?
you too, you joined this fake news? which part of centurion is this?
Sentletse Centurion🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣. Which part
International media has been waiting for bad news from Africa for a long time. This is the kind of content they like about Africa. Congratulations! You hit the Jackpot!
Poverty will kill us before the virus does 😔
This is not South Africa
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I’ve been living in Pretoria all my life- this is not Centurion. get your facts right.!
Mooiplaas is in Centurion.
PerfectorNtuli Many of you didn’t even read the article, but are quick to jump to conclusions. Undocumented/illegal means they won’t qualify for gvt assistance hence relying on organizations like this one.
Oakes we don't even have mountains in centurion
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this is not even centurion
Fake news. Not centurion
SouthAfrica ANC-weaponised-baby-making-will-have-to-slow-down Over-population
Pls note same voted for it with their hearts they didn’t want a better life they wanted a better struggle ANC....
How many serious contenders for emergency food aid and how many there just for the free stuff? Africa is a weird place
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Where the hell in Centurion is this? No man! This is all Fake news! Delete this, you've embarrassed yourselves enough.
That parcel will not last 1 week for a small family of 4
The people who are currently bashing Elon Musk for wanting to reopen the global economy or in fact, racist. Millions will starve.
KhuselaS CyrilRamaphosa GovernmentZA JacksonMthembu_ MbalulaFikile tito_mboweni We have a crisis. Fix it.
All of them from Zimbabwe and Mozambique
How sad. There is no need for this. Give people their dignity now. Stop the lockdown. Stop State Capture 2.0 💔
30 years of progress completely obliterated by China in 90 days
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I have a question, how do they control who received the food parcel already, and how many members of 1 house are there to receive it? Wasn't better and easy to go house by house?
SamSoleZA Why is the SANDF not organising at least a soup kitchen? Lots of fresh produce around and bread baked... Does the SANDF still have mobile kitchens
Sentletse U guys behave as there's no crisis in UK. People are dying like flies there
This is horrific 😢
That's just sad
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Who is handing out, who does it come from?
All for illegal foreigners in South Africa
EFFSouthAfrica mzwandileMasina
So sad
For one Plastic😦😦😬😬
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Scary
Where in Centurion is this settlement🤔
Painful to watch
Heartbreaking
DeanMacpherson Let them eat cake!
DeanMacpherson And court cases going on because government wants to help people based on their race, regardless if you currently have no work, no pay situation due to the lockdown
And the GovernmentZA CorruptANC think that this is the way to go 🤷♂️ the clowns 🤡 are running the circus 🎪
Are you sure that’s Centurion?
LadyIld Straight from Zimbabwe
Why do you not tell people in your headline that this is for immigrants that the govt refuse to help. These people are being fed by NGO'S. The ANC want them to die of hunger.
Door to door would have been better🤔
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Damn. And what makes it even worse is that they're probably spreading the virus that way.
timeguide “lockdown” in SA. No one is allowed to work (for health reasons). Everyone is forced to stand in tight packed queue for welfare food. Government logic. Problem exacerbated.
Misleading headline. Mostly foreigners & undocumented migrants who fled their poverty-stricken countries, e.g. Zimbabwe. South African NGOs supported by gov services are feeding them via food parcels. Can't use e-vouchers. Paper vouchers may have been a better idea?
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It would have taken fewer people to do door-to-door dropoffs while keeping everyone safe.
Why they can't deliver these food parcels door to door?
And we can’t buy cigarettes or alcohol🙈
Just shows how lucky we are in the UK
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So lockdown to force long lines which forces people out of lockdown and too close. 🤣😂🤣😂 I love how Coronavirus has exposed everyone’s intelligence levels.
Some ppl are greed 4 ppl from same family lining up tha queue should be 40% less
s But at least the South African government introduced prohibition and a ban on cigarette sales. That should fix everything, right? /s
While the UK queues metres in cars for coronavirus tests, South Africa queues kilometres on foot for food.
FraserMyers it would even longer if they were all two meters apart from each other
And here in Canada some are bitching about not having a haircut
Sometimes I feel I am watching movies, these are not real. COVID19
Oh hell...It's painful to see
Puts our European problems in perspective.
Inexistance de structure sociale ? Associations, groupement ? Pour gérer tout cela ? Pas de mairies de préfectures non plus ? Les gens épuisés font une longue queue pour recevoir des miettes ? Cela veut beaucoup dire pour la grande Afrique du Sud...
Such a horrible situation. People are losing lives, health, jobs, money and starving without food. Leaders and authorities in responsible positions who conspired COVID19 coronavirus for profits should be held accountable for their crimes, notoriety and actionable inaction.
artificially created crisis 🤐
They should definitely keep attacking the white farmers. Worked great for Zimbabwe
Madhouse mankind The situation is absurd...
South Africa used to be called the bread basket of Africa. How times have changed.
There's a much better way. It's called CASH TRANSFER
Peterman43 How is this sustainable? Until when? September? There will be no jobs to go back to. Country bankrupt. Just lift the lockdown already!
lolaogunnaike Oh my goodness. The world need help.
HenryMakow Food parcels courtesy of 'philanthropist' like Gates, Bezoz, Soros and other humanity saviors. Vaccines will make it all better.
This is craziie smh
ARTESIA13 TeamUpRGC Browndeus MzNatTurner bighittinray breakfastclubam booksNrulers JackPearley GrahamDavidA ..WHEN PPL are so blind&lazy not to see the land around them as the solution= PROVIDE LAND & TOOLS not hand-outs, if ppl won't work the land / DON'T FEED THEM
I can’t like that! 😕
AuthorHerscu BillGatesHITLER !
How could they be in line if they are in lockdown?
AuthorHerscu Wake UP America HITLER Time again !
HenryMakow They are doing such a great job down there! So much better than Trump.
No one can stand against calamities, we human beings thinks that we r god in certain instances, have to understand that u r just a drop COVID19 coronavirus Corona Covid19SA
Social distancing? Good luck, they won't need food
JoeNBC Let's see if we can make this go viral; Hey, Employers of essential workers at minimum wage to keep you afloat; allow patrons to round up their change to the next dollar and donate those funds to your workers as a bonus for working your cash registers and keeping you open
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Wow.... That looks just like America. We have people lining up for miles for food bank packages too.
It's a bit like Disney land
HenryMakow Morons! If they hadn´t killed all white farmers there would be more food right now!
Why even have a lockdown if this is the result?
HenryMakow But they must be lucky most of the white people have left/fled and that ANC rules them.
الله يجعلهم سهلا امين
Niyazithanda izindaba zabantu😒
Some people think they hard done to by having to queue for a few mins at our supermarkets, what a terrible situation for these people.
How very tragic. Wondering how long they will be receiving assistance for and whether the little they are now receiving is actually more than what they were used to before ☹️
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... just likein the US.
Similar situation at my local Costco. Horrible!
WTF!
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Seems counterproductive to be on lockdown yo prevent spread AND have thousands lining up in close proximity. Virus will still spread and everyone will be hungry and miserable.
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This is horrific
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