THE WESTERN High Court has ordered the Social Development Department Minister Lindiwe Zulu not to prevent people from distributing and receiving food over the next month.
The court ordered Zulu to bring this to the attention of social development officials in her department and MECs in all of the provinces.
The case against Zulu was postponed in the Western Cape High Court on Friday, and the full legal challenge will now be heard on the 19th of June.
DA MP James Lorimer said this means that for the next four weeks food distribution by NGOs can continue as normal before the matter finally comes to court.
“The DA brought the case after draft regulations started being enforced 3 weeks ago. These regulations shut down soup kitchens and placed stiff regulations on the distribution of food parcels. This stopped food reaching thousands of hungry people as food relief NGO’s were threatened
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