No more ‘business as usual’ — experts sound warning on SA’s lapsed food plan

Daily Maverick | 01.11.2026 13:39
“Statistics South Africa’s General Household Survey has recorded that 9.4 million South Africans went hungry in 2025 and that 22% of households did not have adequate access to food,” said Maverick Citizen managing editor Zukiswa Pikoli in her opening remarks at Daily Maverick’s webinar, Hungry in a Land Of Plenty: What SA’s Food Plan got Wrong, on 29 October.