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What's Eating Us? Podcast travels

Daily Maverick · 🇿🇦 public South Africa · · 310 words · By Felix Dlangamandla; Lillian Roberts
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What to know about What's Eating Us? Podcast travels

Daily Maverick documented the realities of hunger in the Western and Eastern Cape, gathering personal stories through podcast interviews and glimpses into local lives.

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Coverage spectrum

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What happened

Daily Maverick documented the realities of hunger in the Western and Eastern Cape, gathering personal stories through podcast interviews and glimpses into local lives.

Why it matters

Charmaine King, a seasonal farmworker in the Cape Winelands, speaks to Daily Maverick about her life and living conditions.

Common ground

(Photo: Nathi Nqobile) With the support of the Women on Farms Project, Daily Maverick visited De Doorns and Stellenbosch during the July 2025 winter to interview farmworkers in these Western Cape grape-growing hubs.

Perspective signals

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 5 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “A study by Stephen Devereux and Lauren Taverner-Smith found that 88% of women farmworkers in the Northern Cape experience severe food insecurity during winter due to a lack of work.”
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Wikipedia evidence includes unrelated entries about Francis Drake, Gaza genocide, and History of India. No sources corroborate the study by Devereux and Taverner-Smith or the 88% food insecurity claim.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Sir Francis Drake (c. 1540 – 28 January 1596) was an English explorer and privateer best known for making the second circumnavigation of the world in a single expedition between 1577 and 1580 (being t…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Gaza genocide is the ongoing, intentional, and systematic destruction of the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip carried out by Israel during the Gaza war. It encompasses mass killings, deliberat…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Anatomically modern humans first arrived on the Indian subcontinent between 73,000 and 55,000 years ago. The earliest known human remains in South Asia date to 30,000 years ago. Sedentariness began in…
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Claim 2: “There is a subsidy for ECD centres, which has increased from R17 per child to R24, but unregistered centres do not get it.”
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No evidence found in Wikipedia or other sources to support the claim about ECD centre subsidies or the R17 to R24 increase.
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Claim 3: “At least 40.8 million people in South Africa live below the upper-bound poverty line, meaning they cannot afford the bare essentials, with 10.8 million living below the food poverty line.”
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Wikipedia entries about South Africa, its soccer team, and White South Africans do not mention the specific poverty line statistics claimed. No evidence supports the 40.8 million figure.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa. Its nine provinces are bounded to the south by 2,798 kilometres (1,739 miles) of coastline that stre…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The South Africa national football team represents South Africa in men's international football and is run by the South African Football Association, the governing body for football in South Africa. N…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — White South Africans are South Africans of European descent. In linguistic, cultural, and historical terms, they are generally divided into the Afrikaans-speaking descendants of the Dutch East India C…
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Claim 4: “The Eastern Cape ranks second nationally for school meal dependency, with 89.3% of public school learners relying on the National School Nutrition Programme. This figure excludes those in Early Childhood Development (ECD) centres, who remain outside the primary feeding scheme.”
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No evidence found in Wikipedia or other sources to support the claim about Eastern Cape school meal dependency or the National School Nutrition Programme statistics.
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Claim 5: “With the support of the Women on Farms Project, Daily Maverick visited De Doorns and Stellenbosch during the July 2025 winter to interview farmworkers in these Western Cape grape-growing hubs.”
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The provided Wikipedia evidence (N1 route description) is unrelated to the claim about Daily Maverick's visit. No corroborating sources found in cross-references, web search, or relevant Wikipedia entries.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The N1 is a national route in South Africa that runs from Cape Town through Bloemfontein, Johannesburg, Pretoria and Polokwane to Beit Bridge on the border with Zimbabwe. It forms the first section of…
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