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After helping a baby that was close to death due to starvation, Julia Mbambo and Glenda Brunette from Walmer Angels, an organisation assisting in one of Gqeberha’s poorest townships, have helped more mothers who indicated that they too were in distress.
In several villages in the Eastern Cape there are reports of children running a food stokvel, a practice they have termed ‘Umgalelo’, to make sure that at least twice a week their school feeding scheme fills their little stomachs. Their hunger, and the indignity they suffer as children, is dire.
After four years of debate and consultation around the Children’s Amendment Bill, it took only half an hour for the Social Development Portfolio Committee to decide on amendments. It was done without a clause-by-clause analysis, without reference to public contributions and with no input from.
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