The latest National Income Dynamics Study Coronavirus Rapid Mobile Survey has unveiled the heightened levels of hunger that confronted many South Africans in April this year - the 'peak' of the Covid-19 lockdown.
Johannesburg - The latest National Income Dynamics Study Coronavirus Rapid Mobile Survey has unveiled the heightened levels of hunger that confronted many South Africans in April this year - the "peak" of the Covid-19 lockdown.
The researchers surveyed 7 000 households and they found that 47% of respondents reported that their household ran out of money to buy food in April 2020. “Given that the second measure is a much stricter measure of food insecurity it seems quite clear that the incidence of running out of money to buy food has more than doubled,” researchers sad..
“The most comparable pre-lockdown statistic comes from the GHS, which showed that only 5% of households reported skipping meals for “5 days in the past 30 days” in 2018. “Pandemic-induced job losses present a major threat to the livelihoods of a large proportion of grant-receiving households precisely because earnings has been an important source of income for most grant-receiving households.
“This can partly explain why hunger has been exacerbated despite grant income not changing or even increasing,” the report said.
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