Rotten cabbages and wilted carrots fit for orphans

Unscrupulous shop owners do not only supply orphans with rotten vegetables; they also reduce the contents of the food basket, reports NDINGILILO GAOSWEDIWE

BOROLONG: Guardians of orphans are up in arms in Borolong over what they allege are rotten foodstuffs issued by the shops which supply them.

The beneficiaries claim they have been supplied with rotten fruit and vegetables.
"The shop dealer from Shashe Mooke gave me two small battered heads of cabbage and told me that it was supposed to be a single head if the cabbages were fresh," said an 18-year old girl who was collecting food hampers for her two little brothers.

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