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How science and AI can help us build safer, fairer food systems
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How science and AI can help us build safer, fairer food systems

By Manana Dlangalala and Lise Korsten
Maverick Citizen

State’s interdepartmental strategy to tackle hunger hampers South Africans’ right to food — report

By Naledi Sikhakhane
State’s interdepartmental strategy to tackle hunger hampers South Africans’ right to food — report
Maverick Citizen

Stories untold – centring the voices of survivors of childhood violence and abuse

By Tamsin Metelerkamp
Stories untold – centring the voices of survivors of childhood violence and abuse
Maverick Citizen

Current gonorrhoea meds might stop working, but access to new ones in SA seems a long way off

By Catherine Tomlinson
Current gonorrhoea meds might stop working, but access to new ones in SA seems a long way off
South Africa

Survival stories – readers share their experiences of child abuse

By Daily Maverick
Survival stories – readers share their experiences of child abuse
Electronic death registration is a win-win for SA — let’s make it happen
Maverick Citizen

Electronic death registration is a win-win for SA — let’s make it happen

By Pam Groenewald and Debbie Bradshaw
Gaps in the safety net — breaking down state and societal protections for children
Maverick Citizen

Gaps in the safety net — breaking down state and societal protections for children

By Tamsin Metelerkamp and Kristin Engel
More than 100 displaced undocumented migrants arrested in aftermath of Addo violence
Nelson Mandela Bay

More than 100 displaced undocumented migrants arrested in aftermath of Addo violence

By Estelle Ellis
Hunger crisis — rights group calls for state action as 23% of South Africans struggle to access food
Maverick Citizen

Hunger crisis — rights group calls for state action as 23% of South Africans struggle to access food

By Naledi Sikhakhane
From protest to policy — how to prepare student leaders for governance roles
Maverick Citizen

From protest to policy — how to prepare student leaders for governance roles

By Tebogo Mothibinyane, Cecil Bodibe and Zolile Mlisana
Defence Force refuses to fund retired officer implicated in Cradock Four inquest
Nelson Mandela Bay

Defence Force refuses to fund retired officer implicated in Cradock Four inquest

By Estelle Ellis
Presidential Youth Employment Initiative delivers 76,000 jobs in Q4 — but it’s a drop in the ocean
Maverick Citizen

Presidential Youth Employment Initiative delivers 76,000 jobs in Q4 — but it’s a drop in the ocean

By Lerato Mutsila
Maverick Citizen

Understanding shingles: Risks, vaccination gaps, and the quest for better health solutions

By Catherine Tomlinson
Understanding shingles: Risks, vaccination gaps, and the quest for better health solutions
Maverick Citizen

SA food system ‘is not broken’ — there is a lack of will to ensure food security

By Naledi Sikhakhane
SA food system ‘is not broken’ — there is a lack of will to ensure food security
Maverick Citizen

Single mom and Cape Town activist Yumna Alexander gives adults a second chance through night schools

By Siyabonga Goni
Single mom and Cape Town activist Yumna Alexander gives adults a second chance through night schools
Maverick Citizen

Are children living with HIV being left behind? Here’s what the stats tell us

By Elri Voigt
Maverick Citizen

Trump’s HIV funding cuts will also exacerbate diabetes, cervical cancer and depression

By Zano Kunene
Maverick Citizen

Data drought: How funding losses are compromising South Africa's HIV response efforts

By Ida Jooste
Maverick Citizen

Constitutional rights for children: An urgent call for early childhood development in South Africa

By Nobukhosi Zulu-Taruza, Tess Peacock, Nurina Ally, Cameron McConnachie, Daniel Peter Al-Naddaf and Mmatsetshweu Ruby Motaung
Ten unacceptable facts about hunger in South Africa on World Hunger Day
Maverick Citizen

Ten unacceptable facts about hunger in South Africa on World Hunger Day

World Hunger Day is more appropriate than World Food Day for South Africa to commemorate. Lack of food is not a problem in our country; hunger is the problem.
By Stephen Devereux, Busiso Moyo and Mark Heywood
Op-eds

Empty promises, empty stomachs — South Africa’s hunger emergency

By Scott Drimie and Kennedy Dzama
South Africa

SA children say they really like to read, despite dismal reading test results

By Laura Grant and Ro Manoim
Maverick Citizen

A wake-up call for education: Lessons from Peru's successful literacy reform journey

By Laura Grant and Ro Manoim
Maverick Citizen

Heavy-handed

By 2Lani and UBUNTOONS
Unpacking obstetric violence in Africa, World Hunger Day discussion and examining NDPP appointment processes
Maverick Citizen

Unpacking obstetric violence in Africa, World Hunger Day discussion and examining NDPP appointment processes

By Lerato Mutsila
From shoplifting to watered-down formula — desperate new moms and SA’s malnutrition crisis
Maverick Citizen

From shoplifting to watered-down formula — desperate new moms and SA’s malnutrition crisis

By Lillian Roberts
Empowering Africa: How education and AI can transform our food systems for the future
Maverick Citizen

Empowering Africa: How education and AI can transform our food systems for the future

By Kurt Ackermann
‘Vetting crisis’ — thousands of Gauteng scholar transport drivers not screened against offenders list
Maverick Citizen

‘Vetting crisis’ — thousands of Gauteng scholar transport drivers not screened against offenders list

By Takudzwa Pongweni
SA should ditch its woefully inequitable and expensive American health system
Maverick Citizen

SA should ditch its woefully inequitable and expensive American health system

By Robert Yates

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