Food security
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
Low-income families are spending more on food since March, says report
“We have to accept that we now face a massive hunger crisis”
By Justin Brown
News | 26 May 2020
Court challenge to government’s “peanut butter sandwich ban”
Lockdown regulations stop or intimidate charities’ food handouts
Law | 25 May 2020
Zimbabweans in SA welcome new service to send groceries home
“Mukuru Groceries has solved my problem” says mom whose children still live in Zimbabwe
News | 18 May 2020