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Adrino Mazenda & Saul Ngarava

Adrino Mazenda is a senior researcher at the University of Pretoria and Saul Ngarava Is a research fellow in the Risk and Vulnerability Science Centre at the University of Fort Hare.

Underfed: About 6.5-million people living in South Africa go hungry, meaning households cannot afford to buy food or to make their own. In Gauteng, the economic hub of the country, about 35% of the population is severely food insecure. (David Harrison)

FOOD INSECURITY

13 MAY 2022

What’s driving hunger in Gauteng, South Africa’s economic power house

Vulnerable families depend on the delivery of essential services and safety nets to survive

Adrino Mazenda & Saul Ngarava

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