It is already happening. People are handing out food parcels that apparently cost R1,200 yet, the contents thereof wouldn’t cost more than R200. It breaks my heart to see how people and organisations are being opportunists amid the dire effects of the coronavirus. Sadly, it looks like poverty could kill us more than the coronavirus itself. No, this is not solicited research. It is based on the number of people who are worried about what they are going to eat next.
We all understand that we have to save life. We completely embrace the idea to save more lives. However, the lives of many poor people will not be saved if they have no food to keep their immune systems going. The prayer is that our government’s plan to take us out of this will work. A lot of things are already affecting human lives.
In the past weeks, we have seen many nonprofit, nongovernment organisations and private companies partnering to hand out food parcels to different communities throughout the nation. We have also seen government officials jumping on the bandwagon to distribute food parcels.In some instances, the parcels included 2kg of chicken mixed portions, 2l of cooking oil, 5kg or 10kg of maize meal, a tin of canned fish, and 2kg of sugar.