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Child hunger grows with pandemic

AS THE new variant of the Covid-19 virus spreads across South Africa, child hunger is on the rise, and it is up to the government to stop its spread.

Social grants, school meals and Early Childhood Development subsidies are what researchers at Stellenbosch University (SU) believed would stop an epidemic of hunger that had fallen across the nation over the last two decades.

“Things were starting

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