Big budget but pupils get slim pickings

Gauteng's R9bn school nutrition programme menu includes canned chicken livers and golf ball-size apples

20 April 2025 - 00:00

Apples the size of golf balls, canned processed chicken livers and rice that does not go soft when cooked are among the foodstuffs fed to the 1.7-million Gauteng recipients of the province’s R9bn school nutrition programme. ..

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