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On World Hunger Day, a South African NPO warns the hunger crisis is growing, and flag multiple ills that accompany child neglect and abuse.

From cocktails and a glitzy casino event on a yacht, rounded off with fine dining and late-night drinks, to a budget braai in the company parking lot, corporate year-end bashes this year have ranged from the luxurious to strictly low-budget affairs.

The 38th Annual Adams County 4-H/FFA Junior Livestock Sale took place July during the South Mountain Fair near Arendtsville.

Food insecurity reaches “catastrophic famine” levels in 20 hotspots as calls for urgent humanitarian action calls are disregarded by the international community.

The World Health Organization has classified South Africa’s hunger problem as a crisis. While the country is a signatory to the UN Sustainable Development Goals that put the eradication of hunger by 2030 as goal number two, pre-pandemic South Africa was not on track to achieve this. Now, Covid-19 has set it even further back on the path. Maverick Citizen spoke to three NGOs working to eradicate hunger in South Africa and got their assessment on the crisis facing the country, as well as what their individual organisational strategies focused on. Operation Hunger was established in 1978 by Dr...