Cape Talk Interview: Eradicate hidden hunger so South Africa can thrive
Hidden hunger is holding South Africa back. Liezel Engelbrecht, Nutrition Lead at Hold My Hand, incubated by DGMT, spoke to Cape Talk about the fact that calories alone aren’t enough. Children need vitamins and minerals to grow, learn and thrive. Since 2003, South Africa has required maize meal and bread flour to be fortified, with […]
Fortifying everyday foods: why pap and bread are part of the solution to hidden hunger
Bread and pap in South Africa are enhanced so that they deliver the vitamins and minerals your body needs. That’s the basic premise of large-scale food fortification — adding small amounts of essential nutrients to the staple foods people already eat, so that more children can grow well, more mothers have healthy pregnancies, and fewer […]
Op-ed: How pap and bread can help reduce hidden hunger
Imagine if every slice of bread and every plate of pap gave you the vitamins and minerals you needed. When South Africa’s fortification regulations came into effect in 2003, this was the idea behind it. Two of the country’s most common staples, maize meal and wheat flour (specifically bread flour), would carry a hidden bonus: […]
Hands-on Learning Issue 31
Through the Hands-on Learning publication, we hope to play a helpful role in synthesising information from innovators and implementers in civil society, supporting them to share what they have learnt so that others can draw from and build on their experiences. How our unsung heroes can reduce stunting The care and nutrition that mothers and […]
Learning Brief – How our unsung heroes can reduce stunting
The care and nutrition that mothers and children receive during the first 1 000 days of a child’s life play a crucial role in shaping their growth and learning trajectory. But South Africa is facing a malnutrition crisis, with recent figures revealing one in four has limited access to food. Malnutrition is one of the […]
New data on the development status of South Africa’s preschoolers
In South Africa, too many children start school already behind South Africa’s youngest learners are falling behind even before starting Grade R. The latest Thrive by Five Index 2024, the country’s largest survey of preschool outcomes, reveals that less than half of four-year-olds in early learning programmes (ELPs) are developmentally on track. The picture is […]
SAFM Interview: Maternity protection is a right. Why are informal workers in South Africa not getting it?
Following on from our Daily Maverick op-ed exposing the exclusion of informal workers from maternity protections, the conversation continued on SAFM. Julie Mentor, project lead for Embrace: Movement for Mothers (a DG Murray Trust project), explained how millions of independent contractors and informal workers remain locked out of maternity and parental benefits under South Africa’s […]
Newzroom Afrika Interview: Informal workers are not eligible for maternity and paternal benefits
Following on from our op-ed in Daily Maverick highlighting the exclusion of informal workers from maternity protections, Julie Mentor, project lead for Embrace: Movement for Mothers, spoke on Newzroom Afrika. She underscored how millions of independent contractors and informal workers remain ineligible for maternity and parental benefits under South Africa’s labour laws. For women running […]
SAFM Interview: Pregnant, self-employed and unprotected
Across South Africa, more than 40% of the country’s 1.9 million self-employed informal workers are women, yet they remain invisible in the eyes of the law. If you are pregnant and selling food in a township market, or running a small business to keep your household afloat, you are excluded from maternity benefits that formal […]
PowerFM Interview: Excluded from the Law – Informal economy mothers left without maternity benefits
Across South Africa, more than 40% of the country’s 1.9 million self-employed informal workers are women, yet they remain invisible in the eyes of the law. If you are pregnant and selling food in a township market, or running a small business to keep your household afloat, you are excluded from maternity benefits that formal […]