Food security

Covid-19: SASSA runs out of food parcels in Uitenhage

Councillors deny allegations that they distribute parcels unfairly

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News | 22 April 2020

“Dying is dying, whether it is from coronavirus or hunger,” says Tsakane woman

“If the government cannot give us food parcels as promised, it should let us go back to work and hustle for our families to eat”

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News | 22 April 2020

Covid-19: Civil society left to feed thousands of children on Cape Flats

Civil society network feeding more than 1,300 children in Lavender Hill and surrounds

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Feature | 17 April 2020

Covid-19: Safety ramped up at Ceres fruit packhouse as employee tests positive

Rush to screen workers from Nduli in Ceres where first case was logged this week

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News | 16 April 2020

Covid-19: A blind couple’s battle to find food in Louis Trichardt

The couple from Zimbabwe say they relied on money from begging outside stores to buy food and pay rent

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Brief | 16 April 2020

Covid-19: Township residents protect spaza shops from looters

Whoever loots these shops will get the people’s justice, warns Port Elizabeth resident

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News | 15 April 2020

Covid-19: Roads blocked, rocks thrown during food protest in Cape Town

“We’re not going to die from the coronavirus, but we will die of hunger”

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News | 14 April 2020

Covid-19: School feeding reopens in Western Cape

But South African Democratic Teachers Union accuses province of undermining national plan to limit the spread of Covid-19

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News | 9 April 2020

“Townships should not be a dumping site for unhealthy food”

People’s Health Movement urges government to do more to curb malnutrition and obesity in townships

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Brief | 10 December 2019

Uitenhage gogo feeds 100 people daily

Sheila Isaacs offers free meals to those in need

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News | 20 April 2018

Philippi’s vegetables feed the hungry

Lavender Hill soup kitchens and businesses depend on cheap supplies

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Photo Essay | 1 November 2017

Protecting the precious Philippi aquifer

If we stop producing, there’ll be empty shelves in the shops, say vegetable farmers

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Photo Essay | 30 October 2017

City’s food basket faces uncertain future

The Philippi Horticultural Area Food and Farming Campaign have taken the City’s rezoning decision for judicial review

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News | 27 October 2017

Farmers speak out against new plant bills

Pending legislation will have a devastating effect if made into law, claim small scale producers

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News | 26 September 2017

Backyard veggie gardens put food on the table

Zimbabwean turns from teaching marketing to marketing vegetables

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News | 18 September 2017

Meet Khayelitsha’s guerilla gardeners

Ujamaa encourages people to be less dependent on supermarkets for food

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News | 17 July 2017