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Sabelo Magagula wins the 2020 Grow Great Dads! Challenge
Sabelo Magagula won the Grow Great Dads Challenge that was aired on YFM from 2- 23 June 2020. Magagula won…
COVID19 FAQs for mothers
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Reflecting on Flourish
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SA is food secure but millions of children are stunted
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The workforce that makes our health system work
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Please address the issue of stunted children in your SONA speech, Mr President
Stunting, a completely preventable condition that results from prolonged under-nutrition in pregnancy and the early years of a child’s life,…
Minister urged to extend the child support grant to pregnancy
Much of the vulnerability to stunting begins during pregnancy and in the first few years of life, when most brain…
Class of 2018: We shortchanged a quarter of them a long, long time ago
Around the time the matric class of 2018 was in grade one, an estimated one in four children under the…
Political parties fail to address nutritional stunting
With less than two months before the general elections, all the major political parties — the ANC, the Democratic Alliance,…
The Grow Great Campaign Launch
The Grow Great Campaign launched on the 17th of October 2018. The event was attended by the First Lady Dr…
Dr Motsepe warns against a future ‘stunted’ generation
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