What’s on your plate?: Seven meals show what food insecurity looks like in SA

Seven photographed meals – from pap and spinach to samp, beans and festive fish – lay bare how South Africans stretch tiny food budgets and what a ‘full tummy’ often lacks: protein, vitamins and dietary variety.
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