According to the latest National Household Transport Survey, about 59.4% of learners walked to school. The reasons for this were largely influenced by what kind of access they had to public transport in rural and urban areas.
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Families suffer as no access to IDs make them unable to secure grants
By Bulelwa Payi
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Cape Town - Sikelelwa Tomase, a Khayelitsha mother of two young children, has once again been left financially destitute after she could not secure a letter from Home Affairs that Sassa demanded to process her application for a child support grant.
Tomase said she was told in 2018 that she could not apply for the grant as she did not possess an ID and had to first apply for one.
She has yet to be granted an ID, despite the South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) sending an official to accompany her to Home Affairs offices in Khayelitsha to verify information she had submitted in support of the application.
The slow violence of malnutrition in South Africa
By Opinion
Gilbert Tshitaudzi and Dr Mariame Sylla
The Covid-19 pandemic, and the ongoing measures to contain it, have revealed a stark divide between those who have access to adequate, nutritious, affordable diets and essential nutrition services and those who do not.
Launched last week, the 2020 South African Child Gauge, focusing on nutrition and food security, reminds us that despite South Africa being classified as an upper middle-income country, high stunting rates, micronutrient deficiencies, and overnutrition in the form of overweight and obesity in children are prevalent.
Over the past two decades, the world has reduced the proportion of children under 5 suffering from undernutrition by one third – that’s some 55 million children who are no longer missing out on the nutrients they need to develop and thrive in life.
18 February 2021 - Wits University
The DSI-NRF Centre of Excellence in Human Development at Wits helped develop the 15th issue of the South African Child Gauge®.
The Children’s Institute at the University of Cape Town (UCT) publishes the Gauge annually to review the status of children in South Africa and to inform policy and programming.
The South African Child Gauge® 2020 was launched on 18 February in partnership with the Department of Science and Innovation-National Research Foundation (DSI-NRF) Centre of Excellence in Human Development based at Wits University, the DSI-NRF Centre of Excellence in Food Security at the University of the Western Cape, the Standard Bank Tutuwa Community Foundation, the DG Murray Trust, and UNICEF South Africa.