We have put together the following list of organisations that are distributing food parcels to all people in need, including documented and undocumented migrants, during the national lockdown. Download and share the poster if you know someone in need at this time or if you would like to assist the Continue Reading
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 the right to food is realised soon. The Studies in Poverty and Inequality Institute (SPII) launched a report on the Continue Reading
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 government’s own figures. But the rush to implement a new National Policy on Food and Nutrition Security for South Africa Continue Reading
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 a constitutionally protected (albeit far from realized) right to food, it is much more than an anniversary. Instead, it is Continue Reading
Department of Basic Education and SECTION27 find common ground on Tshinavhe Secondary School Nutrition Programme The Department of Basic Education (DBE) and SECTION27 have reached an agreement that will see the immediate restoration of the School feeding programme at Tshinavhe Secondary School in Limpopo. The School Governing Body approached SECTION27 Continue Reading
SECTION27 Press statement: Learners at Tshinavhe Secondary School without school meals for over two months 342 learners at Tshinavhe Secondary School in the Vhuronga 2 Circuit of the Vhembe District in Limpopo have not had a meal at school since the mid September. The School Governing Body of Tshinavhe Secondary Continue Reading
On 9 May 2013, SECTION27 and the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) received disturbing reports about the shortages of food for patients at Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital.