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FoodForward SA warns of load-shedding and truck attacks’ impact on ability to provide food

FoodForward South Africa, a food redistribution organisation, has issued a warning about the impact load-shedding and attacks on the freight industry can have on the country's ability to provide enough food for its population. At least 21 trucks were recently set alight in attacks on the country's roads, while the country continued to endure higher levels of load-shedding due to heightened winter demand and generating unit breakdowns at Eskom. Five […]

30 July 2023

Local

August’s CPI figures decrease to 7.6%

LOCAL The country’s annual Consumer Price Index (CPI) for the month of August decreased to 7.6% from 7.8% in July 2022. Statistics South Africa says month-on-month CPI increased to 0.2%. It says the main contributors to inflation were food and non-alcoholic beverages, housing, utilities and transport. Food and non-alcoholic beverages increased by 11.3% year-on-year and contributed 1.9 percentage points to the total CPI annual rate of 7.6%. Housing and utilities […]

21 September 2022

International News

Food being used as weapon of war in Syria, activists warn

Warring parties in north western Syria are using food as a weapon of war, endangering the lives of more than 4.1 million people that have been crowded into displacement camps after the biggest single exodus in Syria’s nearly decade-long conflict began in Idlib late last year. Syrian families living in camps near the Turkish border rely almost entirely on food from aid trucks to survive; but activists say this food […]

31 July 2020

Local

High Court grants declaratory order to resume feeding scheme for eligible school learners

The Department of Basic Education has to roll out the National School Nutrition Programme (NSNP) to all eligible children, regardless of whether they have returned to school or not, thanks to an order granted in the Gauteng High Court in Pretoria on Friday. This comes after Equal Education (EE) lodged an urgent application in July, in which it argued that all eligible children should receive their daily meal from the […]

18 July 2020

News

Muslim NGOs overwhelmed by the level of hunger during lockdown

Muslim humanitarian and relief NGO's are buckling under the pressure as calls mount for food distribution during the national lockdown. The extended lockdown has placed a huge economic burden on impoverished households in the Western Cape and breadwinners are penniless due to the lack of employment. This has resulted in many hungry families and communities desperate for food assistance. Fears over food security heightened this week as clashes erupted in […]

17 April 2020

News

Parents to be vigilant against diarrhoea

The City of Cape Town’s Health Department has stepped up its vigilance for diarrhoea cases among children as summer temperatures rise. The period from November to May is dubbed diarrhoea surge season as it coincides with an increase in the number of diarrhoea cases because of the warmer weather which assists the spread of germs. Children under five are particularly vulnerable, with a high number of fatalities still experienced in […]

20 December 2017

Events

VOC Summer Festival, your one stop FOOD shop

In case you missed it, on Friday evening, the VOC Summer Festival 2016 kicked off with an exciting start. Following grueling months of planning, festival goers were treated to the annual opening of the festival at the Vygieskraal Stadium, after which the eating began! The stadium, filled with an array of entertainment and clothing stalls, was home to a mecca of delectable delicacies, ranging from corn on the cob, burgers, […]

3 December 2016

News

D6 cookbook launched

As South Africa reflects on the 50th year since the declaration of District Six as a White Group Area in 1966, there was something good to celebrate this week with the launch of the District Six Museum’s Huis Kombuis Food and Memory Cookbook, a fitting tribute to the rich legacy of District Six. The launch marks an important moment for the museum and those 'District Sixers who' have contributed to its […]

18 November 2016

food

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