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Food Parcel Donation to Ekurhuleni Food Bank

Ekurhuleni COVID – 19 foodbank. On the 11th of May 2020 at 13h00, Mr Zhang Yongliang – Gold One Director handed a contribution of R 100 000.00 worth of food package as a donation to the Ekurhuleni Foodbank. The package was receive by Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality’s Executive Mayor – Cllr. Mzwandile Masina who was accompanied by MMC (Member Mayoral Council) for Human Settlement Cllr. Lesiba Mpya.

Also present at the handing over were municipal officials such as Head of Department – Economic Development Mr. Caiphus Chauke and Manager for Local Economic Development Mr. Thokozani Twala.

With a population of 3.6 million inhabitants, Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality has a poverty headcount of 6.6% and the intensity of 44.7%. In view of these numbers, the metropolitan municipality is second from Greater Johannesburg in terms of Covid 19 infection rate – though believed to be concentrated around Kempton Park.

Since the launch of the foodbank on the 14th April 2020, Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municiality has distributed food parcels to 15 000 indigent households and has committed to distribute these food parcels until the declaration of at least level 2 of the lock down with possibilities for review and scaling down. The Municipality is however exploring possibilities of maintaining the food bank (though at a much scaled down capacity) for a foreseeable future to primarily cater for destitute, homeless people etc.

With the mandate of Gold One COVID 19 Command Council:

A team comprises of medical personnel and HR at Gold One Modder East operations has on Saturday, 25 April 2020 embarked on a journey to both Limpopo and Mpumalaga Provinces with the purpose of conducting home screening and testing employees who are expected to return to work.

This programme begun at a time where the President Cyril Ramaphosa on his national address on Thursday 23 April 2020 outlined that some activities will resume as the country will be moving from level 5 of the lockdown on which drastic measures are applied to contain the spread of the virus to level 4 where extreme precautions are put in place to limit the community transmissions while allowing some activities to resume. This activities includes, the mining sector, transport and some businesses including the sale of cigarettes.The mining sector is seen as one of the most economically important in the country as it makes a significant direct contribution to the GDP and the driving force behind the development of the country.

The Modder East operation is expected to resume its operations at a reduced capacity of 50% during the period of the lockdown. The industry is expected to follow the following protective measures as per the Regulations:
• Rigorous Screening and Testing Programs must be implemented
• Mining house must provide quarantine facilities for employees who tested positive for covid 19
• Mine must make arrangements to transport employees from their respective homes to their areas of operations
• while employees from foreign countries especially from the (SADC) region will be expected to return to work at the end of the lockdown.

WHO
Although the World Health Organization has commended South Africa for acting swiftly to delay the spread of the virus, citizens are encouraged to adhere to the rules of the lockdown by staying at home, wash hands with water and soap or use an alcohol based sanitizer and maintain social distance.development tools available today.