South Africa: Christmas comes early for impoverished Ixopo residents
Christmas has come early for needy residents in Ixopo, as KwaZulu-Natal Social Development MEC Nonhlanhla Khoza handed over food vouchers to the community.
The department hosted the Khumbulekhaya Outreach Programme on Wednesday, where Khoza handed over food vouchers to the tune of R1 350 each to people from 14 Wards of the Ubuhlebezwe Local Municipality.
The vouchers allow the recipients to purchase full groceries from Boxer Supermarkets across the province.
This as the provincial department has decided to move away from purchasing groceries for the needy, but that instead give the needy vouchers so they could choose which type of goods to buy.