THULI MADONSELA: Dear President Ramaphosa
I am sorry to pester you with another letter — but I thought if I didn’t approach you, history may judge us harshly
05 November 2020 - 05:00
I write to express my concern about hunger. Of course, this isn’t new: hunger was a national and global challenge long before Covid-19 pounced on the world. That’s why global action was mobilised under the millennium development goals, and why hunger is a core focus of the UN’s sustainable development goals and our own national development plan. But researchers now warn us daily that there is an explosion of hunger.
You will agree that the worsening of hunger is one of the consequences of the lockdowns governments around the world imposed to save us from an unbridled spread of Covid...
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