Drunken residents opened the doors of two of the first three houses visited by Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe and Western Cape premier Helen Zille during a door-to-door visit to two Plettenberg Bay townships yesterday.
In one house the householder kept calling Zille "baby".
Motlanthe is on a countrywide anti-poverty campaign driven by the Presidency.
They were welcomed by drunken residents in KwaNokuthula, where houses are supplied by the government.
In one house, a 47-year-old woman told the delegation that she was unemployed and asked if the government could provide her with food parcels. She said until two months ago the family had lived on their 89-year-old mother's pension grant, but she died in June.
The woman, who is also HIV-positive, is getting free anti-retrovirals from the state.
Zille said she was shocked by the levels of alcohol abuse. In the case of this woman, the state had done all it could do. "It has provided a pension, medical care and housing."
In another house, Zille found a couple who complained about unemployment, but they were so drunk that the man kept addressing Zille as "baby".
- Cape Argus
In one house the householder kept calling Zille "baby".
Motlanthe is on a countrywide anti-poverty campaign driven by the Presidency.
They were welcomed by drunken residents in KwaNokuthula, where houses are supplied by the government.
In one house, a 47-year-old woman told the delegation that she was unemployed and asked if the government could provide her with food parcels. She said until two months ago the family had lived on their 89-year-old mother's pension grant, but she died in June.
The woman, who is also HIV-positive, is getting free anti-retrovirals from the state.
Zille said she was shocked by the levels of alcohol abuse. In the case of this woman, the state had done all it could do. "It has provided a pension, medical care and housing."
In another house, Zille found a couple who complained about unemployment, but they were so drunk that the man kept addressing Zille as "baby".
- Cape Argus
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