SA sends R93.5m food to Zim
11/04/2003 15:05  - (SA)  

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Cape Town - Zimbabwe has been allocated R93.5m worth of emergency food aid from South Africa to combat famine, says Agriculture Minister Thoko Didiza.

She said, in reply to a question in parliament from New National Party MP Francois Beukman, that 55 000 tons of maize had been allocated to Zimbabwe.

Swaziland, Mozambique and Lesotho would receive 10 000 tons each, and Malawi would receive 15 000 tons. The total cost was R170m, she said.

The World Food Programme had been assigned as the executing agency for the delivery of the maize.

"The department of foreign affairs is overseeing the entire process on behalf of (the South African) government," she said.

The first consignment to Zimbabwe had already been started, she said.

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