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The multi-coloured human chain stretches several kilometres through a township between Johannesburg and Pretoria, past police officers and armoured vehicles.
Residents of Olievenhoutbosch had waited overnight for a non-governmental organisation to distribute 2,200 tonnes of food, masks and gel disinfectant.
“We slept here in order to get this food,” said Ndaba Mkhwanazi, 59.
“We slept here to catch the queues. So it took too long because we are too many, but at least we appreciate what the government is doing,” the jobless man added.
On March 27, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa ordered confinement measures for the country that plunged millions of poor people into dire situations.
They often depend on informal jobs to survive, and in recent weeks isolated incidents erupted in several townships as people demanded food aid promised by the government.
The confinement has helped curb the virus in South Africa, where around 6,000 people have been infected and a little more than 100 have died.
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