GROUNDUP: Scathing judgment against Eastern Cape’s department of social development in caregivers case

for being missing in action during the pandemic, stopped paying organisations that provide vital care to elderly people.

Then, on 5 June, the department unilaterally decided that it would stop funding Imbumba. This was communicated via a memo that was not sent directly to Imbumba’s members. The reason given for the department’s decision was that the beneficiaries could not leave their homes to visit care centres, and therefore the Imbumba members should not be paid in accordance with their agreements with the department.

The department argued that Imbumba was in breach of their agreements by providing services at the homes of beneficiaries, rather than at care centres. But the department provided no service that was a substitute for the elderly, and the Imbumba members provided home care at no extra cost. The department also argued that “good Samaritans” and others had provided the elderly beneficiaries with food, but it provided no evidence that this was true.

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