Starving Eastern Cape pupils ‘collapsing at school’
Hunger overcomes many deprived of their only meal of the day as feeding scheme money delayed
Since the beginning of the second term, thousands of pupils across the Eastern Cape have gone without food after the education department failed to pay the first tranche of the school nutrition programme funds.
The national scheme feeds impoverished pupils in township schools and is, at times, the only meal of the day for millions of pupils across SA...
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