THERE has been some temporary relief for 50-year-old Macekane Reserve mother Philisiwe Mthembu, who walks to the Empangeni CBD to collect food from dustbins to feed her 11 children.
The South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) will provide her with seven food vouchers for the next three months until her ID document problem has been sorted out.
‘I am glad that my two children will soon go back to school after they were kicked out last year for not having birth certificates,’ said the excited Mthembu.
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She also thanked Ward 31 Councillor Sipho Ntombela for his support in these difficult times.
‘God will bless each and every one of you for helping me,’ she said.
Ntombela told the ZO that SASSA is now working with the Department of Home Affairs to issue Mthembu with an ID book so that she can apply for her children’s birth certificates and child support grants.
Ntombela also revealed that on Sunday a good Samaritan promised to build Mthembu a proper one-roomed house, but added that the Department of Human Settlement would be approached for a RDP house.
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