The Mangaung Metropolitan Municipality has donated clothing items to 250 people in Bloemfontein’s Phahameng Township. The items – sourced from the clothing bank initiated by executive mayor Thabo Manyoni in 2012 – included shoes, shirts, dresses, skirts, trousers, jackets, socks and hats. “We are clothing the poor . . . and restoring the dignity of people who feel the world has forgotten about them,” Maditaba Matsoetlane, a member of the Mangaung mayoral committee, said after handing out the donations on July 24. “We saw a need of clothing among our people and in 2012 we initiated the clothing bank concept … Continue reading Clothing bank change lives