SECTION27 and the Treatment Action Campaign Concerned about the Shortages of...
Update: Payment to the companies contracted to supply food was made on the morning of 10th May 2013 and patients started receiving their full meals. Our initial statement follows… 10 May 2013 On 9 May...
View ArticleSECTION27 Press statement: Learners at Tshinavhe Secondary School without...
SECTION27 Press statement: Learners at Tshinavhe Secondary School without school meals for over two months 342 learners at Tshinavhe Secondary School in the Vhuronga 2 Circuit of the Vhembe District in...
View ArticleRight to Food seminar presentations
SECTION27 hosted a Right to Food seminar on the 4th of November. This afforded the organisation and other stakeholders the opportunity to form a strategy to ensure the realisation of this critical but...
View ArticleStatement: Department of Basic Education and SECTION27 find common ground on...
Department of Basic Education and SECTION27 find common ground on Tshinavhe Secondary School Nutrition Programme The Department of Basic Education (DBE) and SECTION27 have reached an agreement that...
View ArticleCall for wider policy consultation
On 22 August 2014, the National Policy on Food and Nutrition Security for the Republic of South Africa was gazetted. If this is news to you, you’re not alone. The Policy was not subject to any public...
View ArticleJoint civil society statement: Food
GOVERNMENT URGED NOT TO RUSH THROUGH FOOD SECURITY POLICY 3 March 2015, Johannesburg – South Africa has about 13.8 million individuals that regularly experience inadequate access to food, according to...
View ArticlePHA supports SECTION27’s call for wider policy consultation
The Phillipi Horticultural Area (PHA) Food & Farming Campaign and the Makaza Food Growers have released a statement supporting SECTION27’s call for wider policy consultation on the National Policy...
View ArticleFood: Urgent calls for consultation
Press Release March 16, 2014 Urgent calls for proper consultation on SA’s Food Policy Civil Society Organisations have repeated their calls for meaningful government consultation on South Africa’s food...
View ArticleSECTION27 welcomes food sector inquiry
SECTION27 welcomes the Competition Commission’s decision to launch a market inquiry into the Grocery Retail Sector. This decision follows years of focus on the part of the Commission on markets...
View ArticleThe right to food in South Africa: SPII launches report
As of last year, there were 14 million South Africans who had inadequate or severely inadequate access to food. Hunger is a reality that many South Africans will face unless the right to food is...
View ArticleSECTION27 and the Treatment Action Campaign Concerned about the Shortages of...
On 9 May 2013, SECTION27 and the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) received disturbing reports about the shortages of food for patients at Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital.
View ArticleSECTION27 Press statement: Learners at Tshinavhe Secondary School without...
SECTION27 Press statement: Learners at Tshinavhe Secondary School without school meals for over two months 342 learners at Tshinavhe Secondary […]
View ArticleRight to Food seminar presentations
SECTION27 hosted a Right to Food seminar on the 4th of November. This afforded the organisation and other stakeholders the […]
View ArticleStatement: Department of Basic Education and SECTION27 find common ground on...
Department of Basic Education and SECTION27 find common ground on Tshinavhe Secondary School Nutrition Programme The Department of Basic Education […]
View ArticleCall for wider policy consultation
On 22 August 2014, the National Policy on Food and Nutrition Security for the Republic of South Africa was gazetted. If […]
View ArticleJoint civil society statement: Food
GOVERNMENT URGED NOT TO RUSH THROUGH FOOD SECURITY POLICY 3 March 2015, Johannesburg – South Africa has about 13.8 million […]
View ArticlePHA supports SECTION27's call for wider policy consultation
The Phillipi Horticultural Area (PHA) Food & Farming Campaign and the Makaza Food Growers have released a statement supporting SECTION27’s […]
View ArticleFood: Urgent calls for consultation
Press Release March 16, 2014 Urgent calls for proper consultation on SA’s Food Policy Civil Society Organisations have repeated their […]
View ArticleSECTION27 welcomes food sector inquiry
SECTION27 welcomes the Competition Commission’s decision to launch a market inquiry into the Grocery Retail Sector. This decision follows years […]
View ArticleThe right to food in South Africa: SPII launches report
As of last year, there were 14 million South Africans who had inadequate or severely inadequate access to food. Hunger […]
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