Food security
Soweto welfare centre struggling to help orphans after robbery
R50,000 worth of food and six computers stolen from Sizanani Caregivers
By Mosa Damane
News | 3 July 2020
Education ministers “ducking accountability” argues Equal Education
Civil society wants courts to supervise government’s handling of school feeding
News | 2 July 2020
A few “hiccups” but school feeding on track, education department insists
Civil society takes Minister Motshekga to court for “empty promise”
News | 29 June 2020
Motshekga taken to court for “backtracked” promise to reinstate feeding programme
In some households it’s a choice between buying food or the data needed to study online
Law | 14 June 2020
Covid-19: “We are facing a humanitarian crisis like never before” warns Breadline Africa
Soup kitchen is feeding four times as many people as usual
News | 10 June 2020
Shack dwellers’ vegetable co-operative funds new toilets, masks and sanitisers
Vegetable gardens have changed life in Durban informal settlement
News | 4 June 2020
Gauteng government drops “peanut butter ban”
“Many of us were literally in tears as the recipients received their first decent food in almost three weeks”
Brief | 2 June 2020
Feeding poor people: The national government has failed
But civil society, provincial and local governments have tried to fill the gap
Analysis | 2 June 2020
Contractor says school feeding scheme isn’t viable if only two grades return
“Normally I would deliver for 5,000 but now my delivery will only be for 677 in grades 7 and 12.”
News | 29 May 2020