Thousands of people from poverty-stricken families in five wards in Nelson Mandela Bay will receive much needed nutritious food from Monday, 8 August 2011, onwards, thanks to the municipality's bold intervention (Editors Notes: Let us not forget that BOLD steps are easy to take when using ratepayers money and tolerance). Following months of preparation and the recent signing of a facilitation agreement between the municipality and the Eastern Cape Development Corporation, the relief effort … [Read more...] about R10 million Poverty Alleviation Initiative to Start on Monday
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Eastern Cape Returns to Basics in Fight Against Poverty
The Eastern Cape Department of Rural Development and Agrarian Reform will on Monday launch the Ilima/Letsema campaign in Ngcobo, Zadungeni, in a bid to fight poverty through agricultural programmes. The aim of the Ilima/Letsema campaign is to mobilise communities to utilise the ploughing fields in order to ensure that no land lies fallow and that all land available is used productively to ensure food security. Provincial department MEC Zoleka Capa will launch the programme in Ngcobo, which … [Read more...] about Eastern Cape Returns to Basics in Fight Against Poverty
