The South African Human Rights Commission has said that the failure to provide learners in the Eastern Cape with food is a potential violation of the learners’ right to essential nutrition.
It emerged earlier this month that food was not delivered to more than 4 000 schools in the Eastern Cape.
It said that in the event of non-compliance, it would investigate whether mitigating measures had been undertaken to address the crisis. “We need to know which other programmes are in jeopardy as a matter of urgency if we are to prevent learners in other provinces from going hungry,” he said. “This incompetence from the ANC government must not go unchecked. It is clear that cadre enrichment weighs far more than the well-being of children. Apologies when the government inevitably fails the country’s poorest and most vulnerable members of society are no longer enough or acceptable. Heads must roll — that is the only just course of action,” Nodada added.
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