Community activists are trying to raise the alarm about links between chronic hunger and South Africa’s mental health emergency, which includes depression, suicide and gender-based violence.
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These are the times we live in. As food prices continue to soar to all-time highs and hunger comes knocking where do you turn? Mark Heywood was“What’s the use of collecting firewood because at the end of the day we will have nothing to eat tomorrow” before he went on to poison himself and his family.
For a long time, food insecurity meant famine. Emaciated bodies, on the brink of death, in desperate need of emergency food aid. This was India in the 1970s, Ethiopia in the 1990s, and the DRC today. This was not our reality, and so the privileged in power told themselves that they had bigger issues to worry about than what people ate.
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