Migrants and those without ID face hunger in South Africa

People stand in a queue to receive food aid amid the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), at the Itireleng informal settlement, near Laudium suburb in Pretoria, South Africa, May 20, 2020. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa has marshalled huge resources towards preventing its poor from starving because of COVID-19, but undocumented citizens and stranded migrants face hunger as they slip through the net, aid workers say.

Some 11,000 families waited for charity food parcels on Wednesday in a queue stretching for several kilometres outside South Africa's capital Pretoria, with some lining up from 4.a.m.