Joint statement on fifth NSNP progress reports Featured
3 November 2020 Joint media statement: New Equaliser survey shows there are still problems with getting food to learners who are at home on some days, but DBE promises school…
Joint media alert: School nutrition court case to be heard tomorrow
1 July 2020 Joint media alert: School nutrition court case to be heard tomorrow, to ensure that education departments honour string of promises to provide meals to all nine million…
Joint Media Statement: School meals court case to be heard this Thursday 2 July, as education departments shamefully fail to honour latest promise
26 June 2020 Joint media statement: School meals court case to be heard this Thursday 2 July, as education departments shamefully fail to honour latest promise #SchoolMealsNow #9MillionMeals #FamiliesNeedNSNP “It…
SECTION27, Equal Education and Equal Education Law Centre demand reinstatement of nutrition for all learners, will consider litigation
JOINT STATEMENT: 3 June 2020 - SECTION27 and the Equal Education Law Centre (EELC), representing Equal Education (EE) and the school governing bodies of schools in Limpopo, are considering taking…
The right to food in South Africa: SPII launches report
As of last year, there were 14 million South Africans who had inadequate or severely inadequate access to food. Hunger is a reality that many South Africans will face unless…
SECTION27 welcomes food sector inquiry
SECTION27 welcomes the Competition Commission's decision to launch a market inquiry into the Grocery Retail Sector. This decision follows years of focus on the part of the Commission on markets…
Food: Urgent calls for consultation
Press Release March 16, 2014 Urgent calls for proper consultation on SA’s Food Policy Civil Society Organisations have repeated their calls for meaningful government consultation on South Africa’s food policy…
PHA supports SECTION27’s call for wider policy consultation
The Phillipi Horticultural Area (PHA) Food & Farming Campaign and the Makaza Food Growers have released a statement supporting SECTION27's call for wider policy consultation on the National Policy on…
Joint civil society statement: Food
GOVERNMENT URGED NOT TO RUSH THROUGH FOOD SECURITY POLICY 3 March 2015, Johannesburg - South Africa has about 13.8 million individuals that regularly experience inadequate access to food, according to…
Call for wider policy consultation
On 22 August 2014, the National Policy on Food and Nutrition Security for the Republic of South Africa was gazetted. If this is news to you, you’re not alone. The Policy was…
World Food Day is a call to action for South Africa
Today is World Food Day. The day is celebrated on the anniversary of the founding of the Food and Agriculture Organisation in 1945 but in South Africa, a country with…
Right to Food seminar presentations
SECTION27 hosted a Right to Food seminar on the 4th of November. This afforded the organisation and other stakeholders the opportunity to form a strategy to ensure the realisation of…