More than one in four people in the province is food insecure. This was one of the harrowing figures released recently by the province’s MEC for social development, Bukiwe Fanta, in the Eastern Cape legislature.
Children in the Eastern Cape are starving. So acute is the problem that desperate residents have begged the country’s president and the province’s premier to intervene.On Wednesday, health MEC Nomakhosazana Meth’s spokesperson, Mkhululi Ndamase, said that between April 2021 and September 2023 about 3,070 Eastern Cape children were treated for acute malnutrition and 1,314 were admitted to hospital for acute malnutrition.