The latest Household Affordability Index shows that the average cost of the Household Food Basket increased once more. Pietermaritzburg Economic Justice & Dignity Group (https://pmbejd.org.za/index.php/about/) ‘s latest Household Affordability Index states that families are now paying an average of almost R200 extra per basket since it first began tracking the data five months ago.
“The average cost of the Household Food Basket in January 2021 is now at its highest level since the start of the expanded collection in September 2020,” says Mervyn Abrahams, Programme Coordinator at PMBEJD.
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Mervyn Abrahams
About the Household Affordability Index (https://pmbejd.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/January-2021-Household-Affordability-Index-PMBEJD_27012021.pdf)
The Household Food Basket in the Household Affordability Index is a new basket and has been designed together with women living on low incomes in Johannesburg (Soweto, Alexandra, Tembisa and Hillbrow), Cape Town (Gugulethu, Philippi, Khayelitsha, Delft, Dunoon), Durban (KwaMashu, Umlazi, Isipingo, Durban CBD, and Mtubatuba), and Springbok (in the Northern Cape), and Pietermaritzburg. It includes the foods and the volumes of these foods which women living in a family of seven members (an average low-income household size) tell us they typically try and secure each month. The basket was designed through a pilot project which ran from April 2020 to August 2020. It cannot however be considered the basket for every family living on a low income in each area and for all areas covered. It is however considered a reasonable proxy for a food basket which women identified as including the most important typical foods which most households try and buy each month, given affordability constraints. The Household Food Basket is not nutritionally complete.
31 Jan 2021
South Africans mistrust the Covid-19 vaccines and Governments ability to deliver
M4Jam (https://www.m4jam.com/about-us/) CEO Georgie Midgley Is My Guest
Gig technology company, M4Jam, which provides an important platform for struggling South Africans to make an income by performing temporary, part-time work in a time of retrenchments and downscaling, recently surveyed 3000 of its jobbers about their feelings toward the rollout of Covid-19 vaccines in the country.
South Africans remain broadly fearful of the ongoing impact of the virus on their livelihoods. Despite the reprieve from lockdown and economic devastation, the rollout of vaccines may offer, a recent M4Jam survey found that a lack of trust in both the vaccines themselves and the government’s handling of the rollout is preventing people from seeing light at the end of the tunnel.
26 Jan 2021
Can I Take a Vaccine Made from Aborted Babies?
Several vaccines in current use are developed from the cells of aborted babies. Can I Take a Vaccine Made from Aborted Babies?
How common are practices of treatments on cells derived from fetal tissue. My guests explains the differences between the Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines and the effectiveness of Ivermectin though it is currently a banned product in South Africa.
READ MORE ON: SAHPRA’S GUIDANCE ON THE USE OF IVERMECTIN IN THE PROPHYLAXIS OR TREATMENT OF COVID-19. (https://www.sahpra.org.za/news-and-updates/sahpras-guidance-on-the-use-of-ivermectin-in-the-prophylaxis-or-treatment-of-covid-19/)
DOCTORS FOR LIFE CLICK HERE (https://www.doctorsforlife.co.za/contact/)
Dr. Martin Gill
IVERMECTIN IN AFRICA CLICK HERE (https://www.ivermectin.africa/)
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