Today mark World Food Day – a day dedicated to highlighting the impact of Food Security. Sadly, here is a story that will make you feel the extent of poverty in our own country. There’s a growing number of cases of child labour in rural areas of Mbizana in the Eastern Cape. Children as young as ten years old are used as child labourers for illegal sand mining in Hlolweni village. They carry spades and shovels to excavate river sand. Extreme hunger forces these children to drop out of school. Their customers are traders who sell the sand to well-established businesses in Mbizana. Nkululeko Nyembezi filed this report..

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LINK: On the bright side, there are organisations and individuals who are trying to make a difference in the lives of those who are less fortunate. We will us this opportunity today to talk to some of them. The kolisi Foundation partnered with Kellogg’s South Africa to drive initiatives such as the Better Days™ Programme to reduce hunger and food insecurity in communities that are in need. The Better Days programme provides a breakfast of nutritious cereal and milk every school day to approximately 36 000 learners at schools in partnership with the Department of Basic Education in South Africa and to tell us more on this, we are joined on the line by…

Guest: Zandile Mposelwa - Leader of the better days Programme