What’s on your plate?: Seven meals show what food insecurity looks like in SA
By Adel van NiekerkSouth Africa

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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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- Length
- 36 words · 1 min read
- Published
- September 16, 2026
- Byline
- Adel van Niekerk
- Source
- Daily Maverick