Julia Mbambo News Today

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.

After years of shack fires in Walmer Township, a charity is teaching young and old people to be community firefighters.

Heartbreak as Airport Valley community in Gqeberha buries ‘everybody’s child’ after her horrific murder in a row of abandoned houses.

After being alerted about a baby girl in Gqeberha, who was kept alive with cooldrink powder by her desperate mother who could not get a child grant as neither she nor the baby was registered with Home Affairs, the MEC for Social Development in the Eastern Cape, Bukiwe Fanta, has intervened and...

Children in the Eastern Cape are eating cow dung and leaves to have something in their stomach to take their antiretrovirals. Food shortages in the province have hit the poor especially hard, and according to the latest figures it has lost track of one child in every four that have been started...

When a Nelson Mandela Bay mother finally found help for her starving five-month-old baby, it was almost too late for the infant, who is seriously ill after she was kept alive with cheap cooldrink powder because the family did not have any other food.

After helping a baby that was close to death due to starvation, Julia Mbambo and Glenda Brunette from Walmer Angels, an organisation assisting in one of Gqeberha’s poorest townships, have helped more mothers who indicated that they too were in distress.