A recent headline in the Daily Maverick read as follows, “Child malnutrition in the Eastern Cape qualifies as a disaster” quoting from a South African Human Rights Commission report on child malnutrition in the Eastern Cape province. The article cited the fact that 25% of the provinces’s children have stunted growth and over the period of one year over 1000 children were diagnosed with severe malnutrition of whom 120 died. Juxtapose this with a more recent media headline in a Afrikaans National Sunday Newspaper which reads translated from the Afrikaans, “You cough up R24 000 per head so that Cyril’s (the State President) guests can feast while they fly”. The…
