Callous thieves have helped themselves to 'a whole field of spinach' used to feed vulnerable people during the lockdown in Cape Town’s southern peninsula.
“The whole field has been stolen. They struck 10 days ago and it grew again and they went back for it. It’s a bad thing that someone takes a whole stock of spinach.
"They are an elderly couple in their 70s and they are frightened because they haven’t got money for security. They are frightened that if they expose what is going on, someone is going to come along and shoot them.”Bron-Davis and Vivian Mjongile travel across the province collecting produce from farmers. They make food and feed starving people along the way.
Vivian Mongile's daughter Ahlumile, 13, is under her mother's tutelage. She takes part in gathering fresh vegetables and fruit for jam and to feed hungry people.“The thing that is reducing the number of food items is theft. It is a very big factor, as well as the incredible demand for fresh vegetables now has gone up four times,” she said. “That meant that the farmers cannot supply me with the vegetables and now I can’t supply those vegetables to the soup makers.
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