The Spruit Food Security Forum is a volunteer, inter-faith, diverse and civil-society led initiative, with the sole aim of addressing the humanitarian dimension of the Covid-19 crisis, at a grassroots level, in a pragmatic, transparent, and efficient manner.

1. SPRUIT (Mooiplaas)
Food Security Forum (SFSF)
Represented by:
Marius Oosthuizen, SACC JOC, Gauteng Food Security Committee
Ziyaad Shaboddin, Uplifting Humanity, Muslims of Tshwane
Carina Oosthuizen, Residents Representative, Forum Member
Community partners:
- Haven of Love
- Upli7ing Humanity
- Light of the Needy
- Rotary Centurion
- Smile Impact
- The Way ChrisBan Church

2. SPRUIT (Mooiplaas) Food Security Forum
The Need
Mooiplaas is an informal settlement in Pretoria, South Africa, with approximately 9000 dwellings. The locals call the area “Spruit”. By our
estimates, the community has over 30 000 residents, many of whom are migrant woman with multiple dependants.
We have gathered the data of over 9000 individuals in Spruit, and our database indicates that around 50% are Zimbabwean, 30% South
African, 10% Mozambican, 5% from Malawi and the remainder from as far as Mali and Cameroon. Of the data obtained, 45% include
cellphone numbers and 76% include ID or passport numbers. This data is being used to provide relief directly to individuals and to target
the most needy and vulnerable.
The Spruit community depends largely on income from the informal sector, such as so-called “piece jobs”, gardening, cleaning
etc. During the Covid-19 lockdown conditions, the community is entirely isolated, and unable to access income.
After five weeks of lockdown, most members of the community are destitute due to food insecurity. This has resulted in community
members roaming the suburbs, begging and agglomerating around commercial establishments, which has become a security concern for
the South African Police Services.
In at least one incidence, a woman was taken into custody by SAPS for breaking lockdown regulations while begging, and is being held in
the Central Police Station in Pretoria, in spite of the fact that her two young children are left in Spruit, under the care of a neighbour. Due to
her status as an illegal, undocumented migrant, SAPS cannot fine her in order to release her, nor can they deport her due to the lockdown,
leaving her two small children isolated from parental care.
The Solution
We have mobilised the local community, faith groups, NPOs and welfare organisations, including the Muslims of Tshwane, local Christian
churches etc. to form the “Spruit Food Security Forum”. Together the forum has mobilised over 6500 food parcels, and cash donations of
over R100 000, that has been distributed to the community.
The Spruit Food Security Forum is a volunteer, inter-faith, diverse and civil-society led initiative, with the sole aim of addressing the
humanitarian dimension of the Covid-19 crisis, at a grassroots level, in a pragmatic, transparent, and efficient manner.
We have already experimented with eWallets or bank transfers to community member’s cellphones, as well as vouchers for local grocery
store. These have been sent directly to the phones of woman over the age of 40, who have large numbers of young children under their
care. This has reached 150 woman to date.
As a forum, we are in the process of developing a medium term strategic plan, which will include:
1. Ongoing immediate food relief to 10 000 people in Spruit.
2. The raising of funding for cash-based voucher support, to sustain the community during Covid-19.
3. The development of sustainable community-based, projects, such as: “Mask Making - Business in a Bag” kits, to enable the community
to generate hygiene measures internally, and leverage their own productivity for sustained income.
4. We will thereafter explore more sustainable, structural and developmental interventions, in collaboration with local government and
private sector partners, to address the long-term sustainability of Spruit as a community.

3. Strategic Approach - from food crisis to sustainability
April-May May-Jun Jul-beyond
Mobilise food for immediate
relief of destitute families in
Spruit
Develop a verified database of
residents, and move to electronic
vouchers to the extent possible.
Initiate various projects that minimally
sustain the community, including the
repatriation of families that prefer to
endure post-COVID in their country of
origin.
SPRUIT Food Security Forum
+27 84 670 1723; +27 74 589 0900
marius@thecusp.co.za;
ziyaads@communicagroup.com;
carinao@dbsa.org
Business in a Bag,
Mask-making Kits

4. Verifying the Spruit database during distribution
Community
Orderly queue
for food
“List” check-point
Distribution point
Warehousing /
Storage
Data input
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SPRUIT Food Security Forum
+27 84 670 1723; +27 74 589 0900
marius@thecusp.co.za;
ziyaads@communicagroup.com;
carinao@dbsa.org
9000 residents for Spruit (Mooplaas)
Informal Settlement.
Names: 8979
Cell numbers: 4113 (45%)
ID/Passport: 6891 (76%)
Age: 3005
Gender: 3631 (45% male, 55% female)
Children: 2709
Stand: 2979
Nationality: 4344 (estimates below)
- Zimbabwean: 50%
- South African: 30%
- Mozambique: 10%
- Malawi: 5%
- Mali: 2%
- Cameroon: 1%
- Other: 2%

5. Immediate Food & COVID19 Relief:
100 Tonnes of maize meal
@ R5 600 per tonne
~R560 000
Fresh vegetables 6 truck loads
@ R15 000 per truck
~R90 000
Funding for 100 Mask Kits
@ R700 per kit
~R70 000
Total immediate need: R720 000
Medium Term Relief:
Funding for e-vouchers
@R250pm x 10 000, for 2 months
EsBmated medium-term need: ~R5 million
Skills matching for community upli7ment
Voluntary ExpatriaBon
SPRUIT Food Security Forum
+27 84 670 1723; +27 74 589 0900
marius@thecusp.co.za;
ziyaads@communicagroup.com;
carinao@dbsa.org

6. Banking details & governance
The Spruit Food Forum have reached an agreement with the Rotary Club Centurion, a
registered PBO (No 930064316), for the receipt of donaBons to the Forum, and
management thereof in the interim, unBl the requisite structures have been put in place
for the Forum to operate independently.
This enables the Forum to ensure good governance and transparency in relaEon to all
funds received and to ensure accountability in terms of disbursements.
DonaBons can be made into the following bank account:
ROTARY CENTURION
Cheque account. No 410404837
Branch 01 26 45
Swi7 code is SBZAZAJJ
STANDARD BANK
CENTURION
Kindly send confirmaBon of donaBons to: carinao@dbsa.org, marius@thecusp.co.za, kim.geyser@mweb.co.za

7. Dear Sir / Madam
APPLICATION FOR INCOME TAX EXEMPTION APPROVED: ROTARY
INTERNATIONAL DISTRICT 9400 NPC; PBO NO 930064316
The South African Revenue Service (SARS) would like to confirm that your application for
exemption from income tax has been approved as it meets the requirements of a Public Benefit
Organisation (PBO) set out in section 30(3) of the Income Tax Act No 58 of 1962 (the Act). Your
Income Tax Exemption has been granted in terms of section 10(1)(cN) of the Act with effect from
10 May 2017 Annual receipts and accruals will therefore be subject to the provisions of
section 10(1)(cN) of the Act and accruals and receipts from trading or business activities which
fall outside the parameters of section 10(1)(cN) will be subject to tax.
The following exemptions also apply and are limited to:
1. Donations made to or by the PBO are exempt from Donations Tax in terms of section
56(1)(h) of the Income Tax Act.
2. Exemption from the payment of Estate Duty in terms of section 4(h) of the Estate Duty Act
No.45 of 1955.
In order to maintain your exempt status, the following conditions must be complied with:
1. Amend the constitution to comply with the requirements of section 30 of the Income Tax
Act. The following clauses must be added –
a) At least three persons who accept fiduciary responsibility for the public benefit organisation
will not be connected persons in relation to each other, and no single person directly or
indirectly controls the decision making powers relating to such organisation.
b) Dissolution clause must be amended to state that on dissolution of the public benefit
organisation, the remaining assets must be transferred to -
i) A public benefit organisation, which has been approved in terms of section 30 of the Act.
ii) Any institution, board or body which is exempt from the payment of income tax in terms
of section 10(1)(cA)(i) of the Act, which has as its sole or principal object the carrying on
of any public benefit activity; or
iii) Any department of state or administration in the national or provincial or local sphere of
government of the Republic, contemplated in section 10(1)(a) or (b) of the Act.
Office
Head Office
Enquiries
Mr W Molotsi
Telephone
(012) 483 1534
Facsimile
010 208 3301
PBO Reference No.
930064316
Income Tax Reference No.
9274450221
Date
17 July 2019
The Representative
ROTARY INTERNATIONAL DISTRICT 9400 NPC
P O BOX 785491
SANDTON
2146

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c) The activities of the organisation are carried on in a non-profit manner and with an altruistic
or philanthropic intent.
d) No activity will directly or indirectly promote the economic self-interest of any fiduciary or
employee of the organisation otherwise than by way of reasonable remuneration.
e) The funds of the public benefit organisation will be used solely for the objects for which it
was established.
f) No funds will be distributed to any person (other than in the course of undertaking any
public benefit activity).
g) The public benefit organisation will not be a party to, or does not knowingly permit, or has
not knowingly permitted, itself to be used as part of any transaction, operation or scheme of
which the sole or main purpose is the reduction, postponement or avoidance of liability for
any tax, duty or levy which, but for such transaction, operation or scheme, would have been
or would have become payable by any person under this Act or any other Act administered
by the Commissioner;
h) No resources will be used, directly or indirectly, to support advance or oppose any political
party.
i) No remuneration will be paid to any employee, office bearer, member or other person which
is excessive, having regard to what is generally considered reasonable in the sector and in
relation to the service rendered and has not and will not economically benefit any person in
a manner which is not consistent with its objects.
j) No donation will be accepted which is revocable at the instance of the donor for reasons
other than a material failure to conform to the designated purposes and conditions of such
donation, including any misrepresentation with regard to the tax deductibility thereof in
terms of section 18A: Provided that a donor (other than a donor which is an approved public
benefit organisation or an institution, board or body which is exempt from tax in terms of
section 10(1)(cA)(i),which has as its sole or principal object the carrying on of any public
benefit activity) may not impose any conditions which could enable such donor or any
connected person in relation to such donor to derive some direct or indirect benefit from the
application of such donation.
k) A copy of all amendments to the constitution will be submitted to the Commissioner for the
South African Revenue Service.
A copy of any amendments to the founding document must be submitted to this office within
12 months by:
Scanning and emailing the document to teu@sars.gov.za or
Submitting at the nearest branch
2. Submit an annual Income Tax Return (IT12EI) by the due date via SARS eFiling or manually.
Your IT12EI can be obtained by
o Registering online at www.sarsefiling.co.za to access, request and submit the IT12EI
electronically
o Calling the SARS Contact Centre on 0800 00 SARS (7277)
o Requesting an IT12EI by contacting the TEU on teu@sars.gov.za or calling (012) 483
1700
o Requesting an IT12EI by visiting your local SARS branch.

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3. SARS must be informed in writing within 21 days of any change in registered particulars (e.g.
Representative, change of name, address, trustee details, office bearers, etc.).
4. Note that this letter is not an approval in terms of section 18A of the Income Tax
Act and therefore no tax deductible receipts may be issued to the donors.
For further information or assistance, email your query to teu@sars.gov.za, visit the SARS
website www.sars.gov.za, call the TEU on 012 483 1700 or visit the TEU offices. Kindly ensure
that you have your ID and tax reference number on hand to enable SARS to assist you.
Sincerely
W Molotsi
Tax Exemption Unit
ISSUED ON BEHALF OF THE COMMISSIONER FOR THE SOUTH AFRICAN REVENUE
SERVICE