CAPE TOWN, Aug. 7 (Xinhua) -- South African healthcare workers from both public and private hospitals nationwide on Thursday protested Israel's weaponization of hunger and mass starvation in Gaza. In ...

Stark warnings of a looming global food crisis spark fear as millions of people will likely descend into hunger in the coming months. As the New York Times put it, for the global food supply “there ...

South Africa has one of the world’s highest rates of burnout and other unaddressed mental health conditions in the workplace. Health economists have estimated that this costs our economy more than ...

South Africa is currently confronting a significant crisis in food safety, with more than 890 reported cases of foodborne illnesses and 22 tragic child fatalities this year alone, prompting the ...

The extent of this was recently mapped by the Human Sciences Research Council. For example, in Gauteng province, South Africa’s economic powerhouse, 51% of households experience food insecurity.

“The latest breastfeeding rates in South Africa are from 2016, and from that data we see an acute drop off from 44% of mothers breastfeeding in the first month after birth to only 28.9% still ...

In 2021, the South African Fast Food industry demonstrated resilience following the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, reflected by a monumental increase of 27.5% between 2020 and 2021.

In month-on-month (m-o-m) terms, food inflation in April was 0.2%, whereas CPI headline inflation was 0.3%. Food inflation contributed zero percentage points to the m-o-m headline figure.