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.
Nosakhele Mngqinelwa, 48, who has been trapped, with her family, in a lifetime of poverty, believes is she possibly the unluckiest person in the world.
Women who head more than 100 destitute families in a remote Cwebeni village in Port St Johns, related how traumatic it was to watch their children cry when they had nothing to eat.