School feeding schemes stopped providing meals after the last exam was written, leaving children to find food for themselves in December and much of January.
After being alerted about a baby girl in Gqeberha, who was kept alive with cooldrink powder by her desperate mother who could not get a child grant as neither she nor the baby was registered with Home Affairs, the MEC for Social Development in the Eastern Cape, Bukiwe Fanta, has intervened and.
Children in the Eastern Cape are eating cow dung and leaves to have something in their stomach to take their antiretrovirals. Food shortages in the province have hit the poor especially hard, and according to the latest figures it has lost track of one child in every four that have been started.