2.2 million households in SA skipping a meal each day

30 June 2016 - 21:48
By Penwell Dlamini

About 2.2 million households in South Africa are missing a meal a day. This was revealed in the Community Survey 2016 released by Statistics SA in Pretoria on Thursday. The survey showed that 13.3% of households in the country had “skipped” a meal in the 12 months before the survey.The province with the largest proportion of households that skipped a meal was Eastern Cape at 17.

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