More than 30 Joburg vagrants to be rescued

05 May 2016 - 11:44 By TMG Digital

Officials from Gauteng and Johannesburg will on Friday be profiling “in excess of 30” of the inner-city’s homeless “for an appropriate possible intervention”.A statement said the “the Gauteng Provincial Government will provide downtown Johannesburg street dwellers an opportunity of being rescued from a desperate life of poverty‚ alcohol and drug abuse”.This would see Gauteng social development MEC Nandi Mayathula-Khoza leading a multi-disciplinary team of officials from her department and the City of Johannesburg with the target of “in excess of 30 homeless residents who live as vagrants will be rescued”.“Our officials have already spoken to some of the homeless people and are keen to receive assistance. The majority of these people come to Johannesburg from all over the country in search of a better life and they end up embroiled in this type of life‚” Mayathula-Khoza said...

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