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Grade R to Grade 7 pupils at schools in Dutywa and Butterworth have been excluded from the 2018-2019 budget.Image: Sino Majangaza/DispatchLIVE
CHILDREN

No food for Eastern Cape pupils after education department bungle

A blunder by the Eastern Cape education department has seen thousands of pupils go hungry at 35 primary schools. The department mistakenly declared the schools closed as part of its rationalisation programme‚ but the schools are still…

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Social development MEC Dr Pumza Dyantyi and ward 27 councillor Boy Boy Kalani feed hundreds of hungry people in Mzamomhle on Tuesday. About 100 people are fed daily at the centre.Picture: BHONGO JACOB
DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT

EC hit by winter hunger crisis

People in the Eastern Cape are getting hungrier. According to social development MEC Dr Pumza Dyantyi, many working people are increasingly battling to afford rising food prices. Dyantyi has launched a provincial winter feeding scheme in…

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DUNCAN VILLAGE

JAM spreading hope

•Nutritious mix is reducing malnutrition in kids MORE than 6000 young children in the East London and King William’s Town area are fed nutritious porridge every day, thanks to JAM (Joint Aid Management). The organisation began as a…

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