By J Brooks Spector• 27 July 2020 There is a growing understanding and acceptance that we cannot continue to have large pools of un- or under-employed individuals with few resources while others take advantage of the benefits of the new 4IR economies, says the writer....
Joint media advisory: Victory for EE, Limpopo SGBs and over 9mil learners as court rules that school nutrition programme must resume for all learners!
July 17, 2020 17 July 2020 Joint media advisory: Victory for Equal Education, Limpopo school governing bodies and over nine million learners as court rules that government’s National School Nutrition Programme must immediately resume for all learners! ...
Applicants Heads-of-Argument in the case successfully impugning the failure of the state to feed school children
Applicants-Heads-of-ArgumentDownload A SILVER LININGIn a major court victory for poor learners the Gauteng North High Court on Friday ordered the Department of Basic Education to resume its National School Nutrition Programme for all learners immediately, even if they...
Covid-19 relief: Govt fails to deliver
Jeremy Seekings | 03 July 2020 Jeremy Seekings assesses the performance of the DBE, DSD, UIF and SASSA Food and social grant commitments have fallen woefully short Under the lockdown it has been difficult to get information on what the national government has been...
Govt has failed to implement new social grant – C19 People’s Coalition Shaeera Kalla
Shaeera Kalla | 28 June 2020 Covid-19 devastation in South Africa is more acute because we remain one of the most unequal societies Media Statement: Adjusted Budget Confirms Government's Failure to Implement the New Social Grant 26 June 2020 The South African...
Graft is the killer hippo in the room
Politicians are too weak-kneed to act on state capture, irregular expenses and wasting of public funds 28 June 2020 - 17:23 Paul Hoffman Picture: SUNDAY TIMES The well-chosen hungry hippo metaphor used by the finance minister last week is apt in many ways, especially...
Feeding poor people: The national government has failed
By Jeremy Seekings• 2 June 2020 (Daily Maverick) But civil society, provincial and local governments have tried to fill the gap. First published by GroundUp Summary National government has comprehensively failed to feed poor people during the lockdown it imposed on...
Dear Minister Mboweni and Parliamentary Select Committee on Finance
1. We write in response to your budget and related announcements in parliament on 24 June 2020 and to the invitation for the public to participate in the process of adjusting the national budget in the light of recent developments in the economy due...
Practical solutions needed to overcome South Africa’s child malnutrition crisis
By Claudine Bill• 17 June 2020 Maverick Citizen South Africa constantly teeters on the edge of food insecurity, and the Covid-19 lockdown has just pushed us over the edge. Inevitably, access to food will be a major social and political issue for the next two years,...
Hunger and destitution in a post-pandemic world
Opinionista • Paul Hoffman • 18 June 2020 The longer-term problem of 55% (and climbing rapidly) of the population living in poverty is not yet being addressed but ought to be given serious and urgent attention by policymakers, philanthropists and all who are...
A New Approach to Aid. How a Basic Income Program Saved a Namibian Village
https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/a-new-approach-to-aid-how-a-basic-income-program-saved-a-namibian-village-a-642310.html It sounds like a communist utopia, but a basic income program pioneered by German aid workers has helped alleviate poverty in a Namibian...
LETTER: Tackle the hunger menace now
The balance of money still held in the Solidarity Fund should be used immediately to alleviate hunger 08 June 2020 - 14:59 About 55% of South Africans (33-million souls) are marginalised, deleteriously affected by joblessness and underfed from living below the upper...
Food food everywhere, but not a morsel to eat
Opinionista • Paul Hoffman • 4 March 2020 South Africa can ill afford to waste food on the scale as described by Karin Schimke and Mark Heywood in two articles recently, and not when poverty and hunger are on the rise in the country. According to Karin Schimke’s...
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