Over Half of South Africans Starving: Report

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Over Half of South Africans Starving: Report

Six of ten people in South Africa are starving, the Department of Social Welfare said in a statement on Monday, local media reported.

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Six of ten people in South Africa are starving, the Department of Social Welfare said in a statement on Monday, local media reported.

According Tuesday's The Citizen, the Social Welfare Department tried to alleviate this suffering in terms of social grants.

Felicity Gibbs, national director of the Operation Hunger, said about 45 percent of the children in South Africa are from undernourished families.

"This means to say that 45 percent of families are in need of food aid around the country," Gibbs said.

She said the extent of starvation is higher and more prevalent in rural areas, but this is not to say people in informal settlements around the cities are not starving.

Social Welfare Department's statement followed a media report revealing that the famine in Southern Africa was worsening and the United Nations warned that more than five million people would need emergency food aid.

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