09/09/2026
From: EFFYC Alice Branch
To: All unfunded students
Subject: Food Parcels Arrival and distribution process
Date: 09 September 2026
For immediate release;
The EFFYC Alice Branch is pleased to inform students that the food parcels have indeed been brought out and have arrived in East London as of this morning. The parcels will be transported to Alice, where they will be packed and prepared for distribution by the end of today, with distribution expected to commence tomorrow.
We therefore call upon all students who qualify to remain alert and await further communication regarding the distribution process.
We must, however, raise our concern over attempts by certain individuals, including YBM SRC Deployees, to undermine the efforts made by the Office of the Student Services Officer to ensure that unfunded students receive these food parcels.
There are attempts to push for these food parcels to be reduced to a “one meal a day” arrangement, on the basis that some individuals themselves are accustomed to surviving on one meal a day. We firmly reject this approach. These food parcels were secured to provide meaningful relief to unfunded students facing food insecurity, not to normalise hunger or impose unnecessary limitations on students who are already struggling.
We call upon students not to allow themselves to be manipulated into accepting or promoting such harmful practices. Students must remain vigilant and protect initiatives that are genuinely intended to restore their dignity and provide support where it is most needed.
The food parcels belong to the students who qualify. Let us protect the initiative and ensure that it reaches its intended beneficiaries.
❤️💚🖤
Yours in struggle
Fgtr. Msongelwa Nangamso
+27 73 420 3832
[email protected]
EFFYC Alice Branch Coordinator
Fgtr. Ndiphiwe Peter
+27 63 154 1846
[email protected]
EFFYC Alice Branch Convener