Just how many families in distress have already received the bank cards pre-loaded with R1,500 from the department of social development in the Eastern Cape?
Thousands suffer as R140m for Eastern Cape welfare projects goes unspent PREMIUM By Soyiso Maliti - 12 February 2021
More than 40,000 girls at Eastern Cape schools did not receive sanitary pads because the social development department spent only R22m of an R160m budget covering the free delivery of the pads, food parcels and other social welfare services.
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