/ 15 March 2000

FLOOD AID FOR MPUMA

MORE than 37 tons of flood relief food has been trucked to five Mpumalanga communities on Wednesday. Macfalda Kumalo, Mpumalanga social services and welfare department regional director, said the food went to about 1300 people at Zwelisha, Jerusalem, Dludluma, Jeppe’s Reef and Nsikazi. Their homes have been either destroyed or badly damaged, and they are staying in more than 270 tents donated by the United States and Saudi Arabia. About 120 South African companies donated 32 tons of fruit juice, 1,5 tons of soft drinks, coffee, sugar and four tons of oats.