Desperate Eastern Cape News Today

More than one in four people in the province is food insecure. This was one of the harrowing figures released recently by the province’s MEC for social development, Bukiwe Fanta, in the Eastern Cape legislature.

Climate change is an immediate threat to 45 million children in eastern and southern Africa Unicef said this week.

School feeding schemes stopped providing meals after the last exam was written, leaving children to find food for themselves in December and much of January.

Child malnutrition in the Eastern Cape should be declared a disaster in terms of the Disaster Management Act, says the SA Human Rights Commission.

Ntombizanele Mntsizela committed suicide after poisoning three of her four children with ‘tank pills’, a rat poison available on the streets of Lusikisiki.

The children’s bodies were found on Monday morning. On Tuesday, a search and rescue team recovered Ntombizanele’s body where it lay in thick bush. It is understood she also poisoned herself. 

Social justice experts urge a reimagining of strategies within the sector, if the vision captured in the Constitution is ever to be realised.

We ‘celebrate’ Women’s Day on 9 August each year in honour of the thousands of women who marched to the Union Buildings on that day in 1956 in protest against unjust apartheid laws. What would Lillian Ngoyi, Helen Joseph, Rahima Moosa and Sophia Williams De Bruyn say about the rights and liveli...

SA must be one of the few countries that recognises the human right to sufficient food and allows millions of its children to feel hunger.

Buso killed Orabile Buso (8) and Oratile Buso (5) with rat poison, after using the last of the food in the house, before stabbing her teenage daughter Anathi to death and then hanging herself. It is understood that she was deeply in debt and the family was often starving.