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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.