{"id":4780,"date":"2020-04-06T17:04:25","date_gmt":"2020-04-06T15:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.safsc.org.za\/dev\/?p=4780"},"modified":"2020-04-06T17:04:25","modified_gmt":"2020-04-06T15:04:25","slug":"public-statement-demand-for-supermarket-chains-and-government-to-enable-peoples-pantries-and-solidarity-buying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.safsc.org.za\/dev\/public-statement-demand-for-supermarket-chains-and-government-to-enable-peoples-pantries-and-solidarity-buying\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Statement: Demand for Supermarket chains and government to enable people&#8217;s pantries and solidarity buying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To:<br \/>\nMr Cyril Ramaphosa, President, Republic of South Africa<br \/>\nMs Angela Thokozile Didiza, Minister of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development, South Africa<br \/>\nMr Ebrahim Patel, Minister of Trade and Industry, South Africa<br \/>\nMrs Nosiviwe Noluthando Mapisa-Nqakula, Minister of Defence and Military Veterans, South Africa<br \/>\nMrs Barbara Creecy, Minister of Forestry and Fisheries and Environmental Affairs<br \/>\nMr Yusuf Kalla, CEO Cash n Carry<br \/>\nMr Peter Engelbrecht, CEO Shoprite<br \/>\nMr Guy Hayward, CEO Cambridge Food Subsidiary of Massmart<br \/>\nMr Brian Coppin, CEO Food Lover\u2019s Market<br \/>\nMr Mitchell Slape, CEO Game<br \/>\nMr Richard Brasher, CEO Pick n Pay<br \/>\nMr Graham O\u2019Conner CEO Spar<br \/>\nMs Zyda Rylands CEO Woolworths South Africa and Mr Roy Bagattini, CEO Woolworths Holdings Limited<br \/>\nBackground<br \/>\nThe South African Food Sovereignty Campaign has been campaigning against food injustices in the country for the past 6 years. In this time, we have hosted a hunger tribunal with the Human Rights Commission, drought speak outs with local communities, a bread march, food sovereignty festivals and have actively advanced food sovereignty pathways in communities, villages, towns and cities involving small scale farmers. As the drought worsened we also developed a Peoples Food Sovereignty Act (available here: https:\/\/www.safsc.org.za\/dev\/peoples-food-sovereignty-act\/ ). We handed this to parliament and seven government Ministries. Up to now there has been no serious consideration of such a peoples driven approach to food sovereignty. Food security is not enough to address the systemic crises of our food system. In 2019, 14 million people went to bed hungry. Women have been at the frontline of this crisis through skipping meals, rationing food in their families and sharing whatever they can through community solidarity. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.safsc.org.za\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Public-Statement_Peoples-Pantry_6-April-2020_.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To: Mr Cyril Ramaphosa, President, Republic of South Africa Ms Angela Thokozile Didiza, Minister of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development, South Africa Mr Ebrahim Patel, Minister of Trade and Industry, South Africa Mrs Nosiviwe Noluthando Mapisa-Nqakula, Minister of Defence and Military Veterans, South Africa Mrs Barbara Creecy, Minister of Forestry and Fisheries and Environmental&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.safsc.org.za\/dev\/public-statement-demand-for-supermarket-chains-and-government-to-enable-peoples-pantries-and-solidarity-buying\/\" class=\"excerpt-read-more\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.safsc.org.za\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.safsc.org.za\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.safsc.org.za\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.safsc.org.za\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.safsc.org.za\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.safsc.org.za\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4782,"href":"https:\/\/www.safsc.org.za\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4780\/revisions\/4782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.safsc.org.za\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.safsc.org.za\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.safsc.org.za\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}