LAND REFORM Tembeka Ngcukaitobi highlights expropriation act's impact on young farmers at Mzansi indaba 4 min 1 By Naledi Sikhakhane
DEADLY FALLOUT Trump’s cuts to international funding for health and food programmes will come back to bite him 4 min 7 By Adèle Sulcas
FOOD INSECURITY Empowering communities: The Food Agency's fight against hunger and food waste in South Africa 6 min 0 By Naledi Sikhakhane
SOUR TASTE Sugar poison — The case for a higher tax on sugar-sweetened beverages 8 min 2 By Lillian Roberts
CIVIL SOCIETY WATCH 17 MARCH - 23 MARCH This week — Human Rights Day, Constitution Hill festival, USAID cuts discussions, plus other events in civil society 7 min 0 By Lerato Mutsila
FOOD JUSTICE: INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL MEALS DAY Brazil's bold food policies highlight South Africa's missed opportunities in school nutrition reform. 7 min 0 By Adèle Sulcas
CUTTING IT FINE Experts welcome expanded VAT-free foods basket but warn effects will be reversed by electricity hike 5 min 1 By Naledi Sikhakhane
FOOD JUSTICE: 'EGGSPOSURE' Campaign calls out harmful egg production practices, calls for ethical farming 4 min 5 By Naledi Sikhakhane
2025 BUDGET A VAT hike is not the answer, say experts — here are their solutions to SA’s fiscal crisis 4 min 4 By Lillian Roberts
FOOD BASKET CHECK Food basket even more unaffordable with the prospect of a VAT increase 4 min 3 By Naledi Sikhakhane
OPEN LETTER Petition to SA ministers of finance and health — don’t hike VAT, raise tax on harmful products 3 min 6 By Health Professionals
NOT LOVIN’ IT Branded McDonald’s desks for schoolchildren — government failing or a corporation overstepping? 6 min 20 By Lillian Roberts
FOOD EQUITY Union Against Hunger launched to combat food insecurity and hold power to account 4 min 1 By Naledi Sikhakhane
FEEDING HOPE ‘The power of food’ — Ladles of Love tackles nutrition in early childhood development centres 5 min 0 By Tamsin Metelerkamp
BUDGET 2025 Civil society slams pulled Budget, implores Treasury to ‘put poor first’ in revenue-raising plans 5 min 5 By Lerato Mutsila
‘CARNAGE’ Spike in honey bee poisonings threatens biodiversity and food security in Western Cape 4 min 0 By Naledi Sikhakhane
EXPLAINER What a 2 percentage point VAT increase would actually cost SA households 4 min 25 By Yeshiel Panchia
FOOD INSECURITY OP-ED How the longevity of absurd economic theories shortens the lives of untold millions 12 min 21 By Jeff Rudin
SONA 2025 NHI, housing, employment and education — What Ramaphosa got right and where he fell short 10 min 0 By Lerato Mutsila, Naledi Sikhakhane and Tamsin Metelerkamp
