Over half SA households are food insecure: Women must first pay for transport, electricity, debt

Abstract

The current household food insecurity crisis in South Africa is not the result of the war in Ukraine, or drought, flooding or even global climate change, although all of these exacerbate the problem. It is endemic, rooted in conditions of colonialism and apartheid, and the source – as well as the solution – requires change at the level of political-economic transformation, according to MERVYN ABRAHAMS. This is an edited transcription of an interview with the Institute for African Alternatives in August.