Durban - DEPARTMENT of Social Development officials received a tongue-lashing from all political parties on Wednesday after they made flimsy excuses to explain their failure to deliver much-needed food parcels to the needy during the lockdown.
Thabo Mputhi from the uMgungundlovu cluster said they were expected to distribute 5 000 food parcels between July and September. He said the service provider paid late and the deliveries started late. They were also short of manpower. The Midlands cluster, which covers Dundee and other northern areas, said it started distribution on August 17 and had received about 5 000 food parcels. To date they had distributed 600 parcels.
“We are told about complex deliveries and challenges with suppliers. These are the department’s targets, they selected the beneficiaries, they came up with the number of 88 000 people a month. We did not set those targets, they should have had a plan in place to meet them,” he said. Themba Mtshali, an ANC committee member, said the department had failed in its mandate to assist the needy.
Elma Rabe, the DA’s social development spokesperson, said how the department only managed to deliver just over a thousand parcels was beyond belief.
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