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About 2.1 million children live in households where there is not enough food. Just over a third of these children live in KwaZulu-Natal and another 20% live in Gauteng.

This is among the findings in a report titled “The South African Child Gauge 2019” released earlier. This comprehensive study of the circumstances in which South African children live was conducted by the Children’s Institute of the University of Cape Town, together with Unicef South Africa, the Center for Excellence in Human Development at the University of the Witwatersrand, the Tutu Foundation and Standard Bank. Tutuwa Community Foundation.

The situation has improved since 2002 when 30% of children were starving.

The breadline: Individuals who have to survive on less than R1 183 per month.

“The expansion of child welfare grants to 12 million children in 2018 made the biggest contribution to this decline,” the report states.

School nutrition programs, which fed 9 million pupils in
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Allegations are being made that the ANC Free State paid more than R330,000 per student to study in Cuba to become a doctor.

This is more than double the amount it would have cost in South Africa, and the biggest problem is that the students did not graduate.

It takes six years to graduate as a doctor in Cuba, plus one year to be taken as a language course beforehand to master Spanish.

Initially, 211 students were sent to Cuba, 33 of whom soon returned to SA, but soon after, one perished in a street of the capital.

The training of doctors in Cuba differs from the training offered in South Africa, and experts warn that the doctors are not necessarily suitable for the service expected of doctors.

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Children in SA are starving – One out of ten children had to go to bed hungry last year

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