Championing the war against hunger
Friday, September 18, 2015
Thinking nutrition: Giyose
Nearly 800 million people in the world are hungry. This translates to one in every nine people go without enough to eat.
As it is, hunger and malnutrition are the number one risks to health globally with each year seeing the death toll exceed those of AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis combined.
It highlights the need to protect rights such as access to clean water, education, healthcare and freedom of expression.President Duma Boko, rightly honours past interventions from securing a dignified burial for Gaoberekwe Pitseng in the CKGR to promoting linguistic inclusion. Yet, they also expose a critical truth, that a nation cannot sustainably protect its people through ad hoc acts of compassion alone.It is time for both government and the...