SA’s children are dying of hunger

Malnutrition among Eastern Cape children is at crisis levels. But children are being neglected all over the country by the government

28 January 2024 - 00:00 By Phylicia Oppelt

Soon street poles will be adorned with election posters, and smiling party leaders will exhort us to choose them in this year’s general elections. It will be the time of faux caring engagements for photo-ops and the rural hinterlands will be cynically spruced up and flooded with grand promises, meagre food parcels and one-wash T-shirts...

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