DA Gauteng rejects centralised food bank plan, a threat to thousands of households [SOUND]

# The DA in Gauteng says it rejects the Department of Social Development’s plan to centralise food bank operations by transferring food parcel distribution from 288 non-profit organisations and the five regional food banks to a central food bank. The DA’s Refiloe Nt’sekhe says the plan to establish a centrally located food bank comes as the department cites the high two-million-rand monthly rent cost for maintaining the existing food banks: