Social Development Minister Lindiwe Zulu says amid the conflict in Eastern Europe, the likelihood of poor South Africans securing basic food items is increasingly becoming remote.

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14 May 2022

Delivering her department’s budget vote for the 2022/23 financial year, she expressed concern about vulnerable South Africans increasingly becoming dependent on the state. According to Zulu, her department is the government’s third-largest budget, as it constitutes 13.1% of the government’s overall estimated budget of R1.957 trillion.

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