The ANC has allowed the supermarkets to capture most of the food system and become sites of extraordinary profiteering. Ensuring food security - the availability of food - is critical. Food security cannot be entrusted to ward councillors and local ANC structures, where capture through corruption and patronage is inevitable. There are, though, a number of mechanisms to improve food security that can evade predatory political elites. Along with grants, price controls and all other measures to ensure greater food security, we also need to support the work already under way to build food sovereignty from below.

Source: The North Africa Journal May 28, 2022 08:05 UTC