A quarter of South Africans were affected by serious food insecurity in 2020. But this groundnut-based supplement could be life-changing.
The Eastern Cape had the lowest proportion of households with an employed household member . According to Stats SA, almost half of female-headed households did not have an employed person living in the household in 2020 and, since the lockdown, income from salaries as a source of income had declined.
In 2020, provinces with the highest proportion of households that did not have an employed person living in them were Limpopo and the Eastern Cape . In the Sarah Baartman District in the Eastern Cape, which includes large parts of the Karoo and some of the province’s poorest communities, such as Klipplaat and Rietbron, 150 children have been diagnosed with severe acute malnutrition since 2021. Thirteen have died and 122 have had to receive inpatient treatment.At the time the region was hit by a severe drought as well as the aftershocks of lockdown.
“Once the shipment [from Malawi] arrives we will monitor the children and see if it is a solution to reverse malnourishment,” she said. “Then we will know that we have a solution.”
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