More than a quarter of the South African population were living below the food poverty line when the money-metric poverty headcount was done in 2015. This was according to Joe de Beer, deputy director-general of economic statistics at Statistics South Africa, who was speaking at the 35th South African National Seed Organization Congress held in Gordon’s Bay in the Western Cape recently.
He said that more than 55% of the population were living below the upper-bound poverty line, with 45% seen as non-poor. This meant that one out of four people in the country did not have enough money to buy food, and if one
