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Touws River community garden plants seeds of compassion and keeps hunger at bay

South Africa

Touws River community garden plants seeds of compassion and keeps hunger at bay

By Tamsin Metelerkamp

Joburg’s People’s Pantry pleads for help to keeping feeding hundreds of desperate people

Maverick Citizen

Joburg’s People’s Pantry pleads for help to keeping feeding hundreds of desperate people

By Takudzwa Pongweni

Joburg’s Good Samaritans say feeding the homeless becomes harder as resources dry up and food prices soar

South Africa

Joburg’s Good Samaritans say feeding the homeless becomes harder as resources dry up and food prices soar

By Naledi Sikhakhane

The church ‘must be a space for the marginalised’, activists and faith leaders told

South Africa

The church ‘must be a space for the marginalised’, activists and faith leaders told

By Naledi Sikhakhane

Soup kitchen in Delft struggles to serve rising numbers of hungry, jobless people in the community

South Africa

Soup kitchen in Delft struggles to serve rising numbers of hungry, jobless people in the community

By Tariro Washinyira

Hunger and depression in the pandemic: Why government must target food security to improve South Africa’s mental health

South Africa

Hunger and depression in the pandemic: Why government must target food security to improve South Africa’s mental health

By Xanthe Hunt, Mark Tomlinson, Elsie Breet and Dan Stein

Local government elections 2021 – a chance to put the ‘public’ back into public institutions

South Africa

Local government elections 2021 – a chance to put the ‘public’ back into public institutions

By Pamela Silwana and Ayal Belling

The Culinary Capital forges an equitable future

TGIFood

The Culinary Capital forges an equitable future

By Ilana Sharlin Stone