Food security

Early childhood development groups picket for increased funding

They want the per-child daily subsidy increased from R17 to R23

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Brief | 21 November 2024

Helping hand offered to woman feeding children in East London

The Lunchbox Fund and the Development Bank have committed to providing meals to Zandile Mtungata’s organisation

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Brief | 17 October 2024

Food meant for poor families is rotting in a Gauteng food bank

The Department of Social Development has been supplying food but not the funds to distribute it

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Brief | 8 October 2024

At least 116 children died from malnutrition in the Eastern Cape in one year

Conference on hunger hears there’s more than enough food. Policy failures by both government and corporations are causing hunger.

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News | 9 September 2024

Displaced Limpopo farmers battle to make a living

Farmers had been working communal land near Phalaborwa since 2014

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News | 13 June 2024

Agricultural hubs create work and hope for hundreds

But Industrial Development Corporation funding for the project in KwaZulu-Natal is coming to an end

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News | 24 April 2024

Elections 2024: What the major political parties say about hunger

We sent questions to the ANC, DA, EFF, IFP, FF Plus, ActionSA, PA, MK Party and RISE Mzansi

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News | 17 April 2024

Elections 2024: What the major political parties say about a sugar tax

We sent questions to the ANC, DA, EFF, IFP, FF Plus, ActionSA, PA, MK Party and RISE Mzansi

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News | 16 April 2024

Small farmer makes a comeback after devastating floods

Genadendal farmer Johannes Arendse sells his produce in Cape Town

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News | 13 December 2023

Call for a national early childhood feeding scheme

There is no government nutrition programme for children before they enter formal schooling

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Brief | 16 November 2023

Women farm workers demand meeting with Minister of Agriculture

Women on Farms Project marched to Parliament on Wednesday

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News | 9 November 2023

Rural women shed light on food insecurity

“Small household gardens are not enough for women to be able to escape food insecurity” says activist

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News | 30 October 2023

Sand mining company appeals against refusal of water licence in Philippi

A campaign to preserve the horticultural area says the silica mine will impact food security and the Cape Flats Aquifer

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News | 26 October 2023

Without Ma Rosey, these children would have nothing all day but sugar water

Mthatha mother battles to feed the children who come to her day care centre

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News | 4 October 2023

Children in the Eastern Cape are not being fed enough at school

Some schools are not getting even the minimum funding from the National School Nutrition Programme

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News | 28 September 2023

Half a cabbage is a meal for seven people as hunger grips the Eastern Cape

Gift of the Givers says it’s inundated with calls for help

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News | 7 September 2023