Dineo Mopeli News Today

In South Africa, breastfeeding is affected by fact that mothers are often poor, unemployed and hungry. We look at the Free State, where mothers often face a litany of socioeconomic challenges, and asks how the government can support them better.

Even in 2023 infants under five years in the Free State are still dying from a lack of healthy food. From April to June, 21 children in the province died of severe acute malnutrition and one died of moderate acute malnutrition, provincial health spokesperson Mondli Mvambi has confirmed. Refilwe...