A growing trend of young people undergoing intwaso and reportedly being overtaken by spirits during school hours has raised concerns about disruptions to learning, with teachers not knowing how to deal with the matter.
Children in the Eastern Cape are starving. So acute is the problem that desperate residents have begged the country’s president and the province’s premier to intervene.On Wednesday, health MEC Nomakhosazana Meth’s spokesperson, Mkhululi Ndamase, said that between April 2021 and September 2023 about 3,070 Eastern Cape children were treated for acute malnutrition and 1,314 were admitted to hospital for acute malnutrition.
The Eastern Cape provincial legislature has questioned the national government for reclaiming almost three-quarters of a billion rand in conditional grant funding which will see vital hospital and school infrastructure upgrades and housing projects left in limbo.This comes after finance MEC Mlungisi Mvoko last week announced the province would lose R761.096m in grants due to the national government’s cost containment measures.