Community Law Centre, University of the Western Cape
Abstract
The rights to food and basic nutrition have been implemented rather
unsystematically in South Africa through a hodgepodge of policies
and indirectly by legislation. In view of the dearth of jurisprudence, this paper sought to tease
out the meaning of children’s right of access to food as well as their
right to basic nutrition, to analyse the significance of, and correlation
between, these two rights, and to consider their implications for South
African law and policy.This paper was prepared with financial support from the Norwegian
Embassy through the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights and with
supplementary funding from the Ford Foundation
