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The provincial education department has delayed handing over tender documents to the SIU since February Photo: Supplied

Pairing learning with food is a winning recipe

Much more support of homemade nutrition programmes is needed to ensure gaps are filled

Hugh Masekela collaborated with artists across genres

At least 50 000 children go hungry in KwaZulu-Natal

In a small number of cases principals reported that providers had contacted them to say there would be no food on Monday, but none could explain why.

The provincial education department has delayed handing over tender documents to the SIU since February Photo: Supplied

KZN school lunches may be off menu

Scholars may go hungry next week amid confusion over the companies hired to feed them

Learning on an empty stomach: food insecurity hits students hard

Religious and nonprofit groups play an important role in providing food to students, but sometimes this is not enough.

Learners queue for a meal. (Madelene Cronje)

Basic education department can’t afford breakfast

It is exploring the idea of asking more food manufacturers to provide poor learners with a morning meal.

Food poisoning results in illness and, in some cases, death. Among the causes is the underground economy of fake goods. Photo: File

Inspectors unearth rat infestation at Gauteng school following poisoning

Poor handling practices as well as storage, cooking equipment and fridges – and rats – increase the risk of food poisoning.

Making it through the school system if children are hungry. They cannot learn because it affects their cerebral development

Education must become a social concern

A replication of our social system, education must become a social concern. Simple things like music and reading will change children’s lives.

Hugh Masekela collaborated with artists across genres

School feeding schemes help to grow young minds

Studies show that feeding programmes at schools not only reduce stunting, but also combat obesity and lead to increased enrolment in schools.

One for all: Three classes are conducted in one classroom on a farm in Breyten

Pupils Speak Out: It’s not only pupils at no-fee schools that need feeding schemes

Government intervention is necessary to ensure that all children do not study on hungry stomachs because they are tired and drained.

Women are at the bottom of the pile when policies are designed without them.

No meals are ‘serious setback’ for hungry pupils

Meals are back in 11 Limpopo schools after legal action, but the lost teaching time worries principals.

It’s Africa’s turn to go to the moon.

Limpopo pupils go hungry for two months

Despite government’s national school feeding scheme, pupils at Tshinavhe Secondary School have been left hungry, says rights organisation Section27.

Fearful Indian school children refuse free meals after deaths

School children have been dumping the meals they get as part of a school feeding scheme in fear of poisoning after 22 children died on Tuesday.

The extensive building that Lily Kekana’s brother claims is a tavern.

Limpopo tenders: The feast kept in the family

School food contracts awarded to an official’s relatives in Limpopo could amount to more than R35-million, writes Rapula Moatshe and Lionel Faull.

John Matsobane Phaleng

Delivery of food a hit-and-miss affair

Bakenberg North is one of six circuits in Limpopo that the M&G visited to see how the national school nutrition programme was serving schools.

Feeding healthy habits

Feeding healthy habits

A day of fun during the National Nutritional Week helped kids in Limpopo learn about the benefits of good nutrition.

Transforming the wasteland of Evaton West

Transforming the wasteland of Evaton West

One woman is helping to transform the wasteland of Evaton West by getting people to get their hands dirty, writes <b>Kwanele Sosibo</b>.

Stand up for kids who attend school hungry

Stand up for kids who attend school hungry

It is unconscionable that 1,6-million learners in the Eastern Cape have been denied their right to school nutrition.

Special vetkoek created for learners

Researchers at VUT have developed a nutritionally balanced vetkoek that ends hunger and meets children’s micronutrient needs.