Balala ezitaladini zedolobha belinde uR350

Desperation has led people to sleep outside the Nquthu post office in a bid to be first in the queue for the R350 Government grant

People bed down from early near the Nquthu Post Office in the hope of being first in the queue to receive the temporary R350 poverty relief grant that the Government has made available to the unemployed and those who have never claimed UIF and do not have any other form of income.

Abahlomula ngesibonelelo sikaHulumeni salabo abangasebenzi (R350 Unemployment Relief Fund), bakhathazeke kakhulu ngezimpilo zabo njengoba kuphoqa ukuthi balale ezitaladini zasedolobheni eNquthu beshenxela imigqa wmide ukuze bakwazi ukusheshe bemukele isibonelelo.

Uma kuqhubeka isimo sokhuvethe; kuyacaca ukuthi uhulumeni kumele alubuyekeze udaba lokuthola lemali ngezinye izinhlelo ezifana no eWallet, FET kanye nnezinye ukiqinisekisa ukuthi izimpilo zolusha ziphephile ikakhulukazi emaphandleni. Iningi lalemiphakathi lihamba amabanga amade ukuya ezikhungweni ezisemadolobheni zokuthola lesibonelelo.

Ngolwesibili abasefazane abahlanu kanye nabesilisa abangaphezu kwabahlanu abangathandanga ukudalula amagama abo babikele intatheli ukuthi bafika edolobheni ngoLwesine olwedlule Kodwa umugqa awupheli, kuyabaphoqa ukuba balale ezitaladini ngokuba kubiza imali engalinganiselwa ku-R80 ukufika edolobheni.

“Asisathembi nokuthi kusasetshenzwa ngendlela ngaphakathi noma sekungenwa ngentshontsho ngoba abanye bafika behambe sibhekile”, kusho owesifazane othe ungowaseMkhonjane.

Owesilisa oveze ukuthi udabuka eQhudeni uthe kukude lapho ebuya khona, kanti ukushiya lemali esefikile eduze kwayo akuwona umqondo omuhle, uphethe ngokuthi, “Sicela uhulumeni asilekelele ngendlela ethile ngoba kumanje asidlile futhi asazi solinda kuze kube nini. Mina angiyiboni kahle yonke lento ngoba umugqa umile awunyakazi sdalo”. Seloku kwaqala ukwamukelwa kwalemali, eminye imibiko eyahlukumeza lezi zakhamuzi, kungenkathi kuphele imali ngaphakathi ePosini, nalapho kwaphoqa ukuba iningi labahlali ababevukele khona balale esitaladini.

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