Although it was mainly households with no employed person that experienced hunger, the high dependency rate in SA saw 7.9% of households with at least one employed member facing food insecurity too.
Even the African Bank data that gauged hunger in low to middle-income households shows food shortages before the Already the largest expense for most adults in African Bank's market research was groceries, with 43% indicating that they spent between R1 001 and R2 500 per month. Some 44% of seniors also reported monthly spending R1 001 to R2 500 on groceries. The average grocery expenditure for seniors was R1 668, slightly below the Old Age Persons' monthly grant of R2 080.African Bank said its data showed that food insecurity arose because most respondents simply didn't have enough money to buy enough food. Compounding the problem was that many poor households incur significant travelling costs to buy basic groceries.
Even some seniors above 60 who are likely dependent on the state old age grant experienced food shortages. Twenty-seven percent reported experiencing food insecurity or shortages in the past four weeks before the researchers spoke to them in January. Some 38% said they ran out of money before the end of the month.
_Business Thanks to ANCParliament and CyrilRamaphosa and Eskom_SA thieves anc caders GwedeMantashe1
_Business And this will continue. Remember we have agenda 30 which comprises of food shortage. So even those who aren't living poverty they'll be affected.
_Business 700g brown bread is almost R20. Competition commition Please investigate Sasko BlueRibbon and Albany
_Business We all know how to fix this ☝️ RemoveANC2024
_Business MbalulaFikile GovernmentZA
_Business Continue voting ANC Apparently your grants are enough so this doesn't affect them
_Business GovernmentZA failing its people
_Business They will continue to vote ANC...
_Business African bank, now there is a one sided communication of misinformation.
_Business Yup. All while the despicable myanc minusters and bloated cabinet get generators at their FREE housing. Totally deprived.
_Business They keep voting ANC. Enjoy poverty
_Business Our ministers just getting fatter while the citizens are starving... I honestly don't understand how South Africans are standing for this...
_Business Hey CyrilRamaphosa , you and yours are doing a great job. Well done.
_Business Growing your own vegetables can be an excellent way to save money and ensure your family has access to fresh produce. Vegetables such as cabbage, garlic, spinach, carrots, peppers, and onions, as well as fruits such as pears, can be grown in your backyard during cooler seasons.
_Business You’ll find alcohol in every household
_Business But the Minister of Lectric wears a R4mil Patek Philippe so I’m really struggling to understand the problem here?
JackLon09169906 _Business Voters regret setting in yet?
_Business Yes, but let's get real here. The very people that put us there are living like celebrities with private schools, hospitals, VIP protection, unlimited electricity and water and they waste and flaunt with impunity.
_Business If only the people with no income had land to plant food...oh wait! You say 'subsistence farming' is bad for the economy & that land reform leads to hunger 💁🏾♀️
_Business If you voted anc, I have fokol sympathy
JackLon09169906 _Business They vote ANC and keep voting ANC so no more whining had enough of whining
_Business If you have no money or working why become pregnant every year? Stop this, and our country will become better in the future.
_Business Thanks to MYANC and CyrilRamaphosa .
_Business As long as it’s mostly white sufferers then the ANC is happy
_Business Let them eat cake. We deserve the government the majority voted for
SaaymanBarry _Business The new dawn.
_Business Food has become so expensive 😩 😫
_Business & when you hear political parties speak about 12 million unemployed, rubbish, you can add another 15 million to it. Add another 5 million with casual jobs or below the minimum wage. Anc really messed this country.
_Business When the governing party of 30 years biggest achievement is making people poor and feeding them scraps, and theyre supposed to be the 'liberation party', you know you're truly f**ked.
_Business Viva comrades
_Business Kubi 😭😭😭
_Business Hellen Msuzman don't think so
_Business Keep voting ANC
_Business We are in trouble
_Business This is terribly sad and inhumane 😥
_Business The cost of going to work now exceeds most incomes. Well done ANC for destroying this lovely country.
_Business CyrilRamaphosa must be proud
_Business Their president told them they should be happy with social grants. They can kick start an economy🤡
_Business MYANC ParliamentofRSA PresidencyZA CyrilRamaphosa GautengProvince
_Business Where can one find this research report
_Business Oh but they get a grant & the president is happy with that
_Business When antiwhites have to choose between white erasing a few thousand workers vs benefitting millions of citizens, white erasure always wins.
_Business Success of the ANC