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Before the onslaught of Covid-19, health and social care professionals, were acutely aware that a significant number of South Africans do not have access to sufficient food and go hungry on a daily basis, writes the author. Picture: iStock/ Kuarmungadd
While many countries of the same economic development status have improved their nutrition indicators, South Africa’s nutrition indicators have worsened, writes 
Chantell Witten.
A decade ago, Rob Nixon, a professor in the humanities and environment studies at Princeton University in the US, introduced the concept of slow violence in the context of climate change and environmentalism.
He explained slow violence as violence that occurs gradually and out of sight, a violence of delayed destruction that is dispersed across time and space, an attritional violence that is typically not viewed as violence, at all. ....

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