South Africa drought pushes 50,000 into poverty: World Bank
Date: 18-Feb-16
Country: SOUTH AFRICA
Author: Wendell Roelf
Livestock drink from
a drying river outside Utrecht, a small town in the northwest of
KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, November 8, 2015.
Photo: Siphiwe Sibeko
South Africa's worst drought in over a century has pushed around 50,000 below the poverty line, the World Bank said on Wednesday.
"Around 50,000 people, we estimate, have been pushed below the national poverty line of 501 rand ($31.68) a month because of the drought," Catriona Purfield, program leader for South Africa told a parliamentary committee.
(Editing by Joe Brock)
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