CRITICAL SAFETY NET Calls for probe into KZN school nutrition contracts amid corruption claims 5 min 3 By Takudzwa Pongweni
HUNGER CRISIS KZN school feeding scheme suppliers to sue education department over payment delays 3 min 0 By Naledi Sikhakhane
GENDER EQUALITY OP-ED Unlocking the true value of women’s work in school nutrition 5 min 0 By Matshidiso Lencoasa and Nina Benjamin
RIGHT OF REPLY Do your homework before making false claims of a Western Cape education fiasco 5 min 7 By David Maynier
GROUNDUP EC children endure near-constant hunger as National School Nutrition Programme dishes meagre portions 4 min 0 By Sonia A Rao and Nombulelo Damba-Hendrik
ABSENT MEALS Probe into Eastern Cape school nutrition scheme funding delays that left more than a million learners hungry 3 min 0 By Will Clark
FOOD FOR THOUGHT Eastern Cape learners ‘crying from hunger’ after school nutrition scheme fails to deliver meals 2 min 7 By Estelle Ellis
Maverick Citizen Op-Ed South Africa’s food systems are broken, but we can fix them. Here’s how 4 min 0 By Dr Kopano Matlwa Mabaso, Nzama Mbalati, Hoodah Abrahams-Fayke and Anele Yawa
Maverick Citizen: Hunger Court orders Basic Education Department to ensure millions of hungry pupils are fed, giving them 30 days to get it done 3 min 0 By Zukiswa Pikoli
LEARNING ON EMPTY A year later and pupils are still going hungry, despite court order to reinstate National School Nutrition Programme 2 min 0 By Zukiswa Pikoli
OP-ED Small-scale food traders squeezed under Covid while prices spiral and clientele’s money dries up 5 min 0 By Nduduzo Majozi and Nkanyiso Gumede
GROUNDUP Schools urged to provide food parcels for pupils missing out on meals at home 4 min 0 By Julia Evans
GROUNDUP Researchers call for full reopening of schools after report shows more than half of children miss meals 3 min 0 By Marecia Damons
MAVERICK CITIZEN: FOOD It takes a full stomach to feed the mind: The ins and outs of South Africa’s school feeding scheme 5 min 1 By Michelle Banda
OP-ED No food, no learning: It’s time to stop stunting the potential of our youngest children 3 min 0 By Lizette Berry, Lori Lake and Camilla Thorogood
Maverick Citizen Op-Ed Hungry children: Basic education sector budget challenges for nutrition programme 5 min 0 By Julia Chaskalson
Maverick Citizen Op-Ed Mboweni’s budget cuts are undermining the right to basic education 5 min 0 By Jane Bornman, Hopolang Selebalo and the Education Working Group of the C-19 People’s Coalition
Maverick Citizen Op-ed Contingency plans are needed so children can keep learning without going hungry 5 min 0 By Faranaaz Veriava and Sasha Stevenson
NIDS-CRAM Analysis Hunger remains a crisis in SA, despite new survey numbers 4 min 0 By Kathryn Cleary for Spotlight
OP-ED Child malnutrition breeds aggression and violence, and we will reap the bitter lockdown harvest 6 min 0 By Talia-Jade Magnes
