Many South African households have been going hungry despite a range of interventions by the national and provincial governments, with the country's President Cyril Ramaphosa revealing that at least 15 million people in the country face serious challenges putting food on the table. Snenhlanhla Mazibuko's family is among those struggling. She is a young mother who supports her family through collecting cans for recycling in the streets of Johannesburg. Amid a difficult employment market, she turned to the streets to earn a living. Her responsibilities extend beyond her three school-aged children. She also helps provide for her grandmother and aunt back home in KwaZulu-Natal Province in east South Africa. Snenhlanhla is just one of the millions of South Africans who are struggling to put food on the table. According to some economic analysts, in a context of high unemployment and poverty and limited economic growth, many households across the country are finding it difficult to afford food. According to experts in the country, problem is far more complex than solving for supply and demand. He added that South African society must to work together to find solutions to this income deficit. South Africa is amongst 29 countries where the right to food and water is enshrined in the constitution, and where citizens have access to the legal system to ensure that this right is enforced. Shotlist: Johannesburg, South Africa - Oct 24, 2025: 1. Various of Snenhlanhla Mazibuko, resident of Johannesburg, picking up cans, walking on road; 2. SOUNDBITE (Afrikaans, dubbed in English) Snenhlanhla Mazibuko, resident, Johannesburg (starting with shot 1/partially overlaid with shot 3/ending with shot 4): "After losing my job, I soon realized that it's really hard to get another job. To avoid going back home and just sitting around doing nothing, I decided to collect cans and recycle so I can get a bit of money for survival. I even go to places where people drink alcohol to collect these cans, and also, I go through dustbins." [SHOTS OVERLAYING SOUNDBITE]; 3. Various of bag of cans [SHOTS OVERLAYING SOUNDBITE]; 4. Mazibuko picking up cans; 5. Mazibuko, her children; 6. Mazibuko sorting out cans; 7. SOUNDBITE (Afrikaans, dubbed in English) Snenhlanhla Mazibuko, resident, Johannesburg (starting with shot 6/partially overlaid with shot 8): "It's even worse that my aunt is not well and I have to take care of that. I'm alone in all this. My children have to eat, they have to go to school, so I have no choice but to always make a plan." [SHOTS OVERLAYING SOUNDBITE]; 8. Mazibuko crushing cans by foot [SHOTS OVERLAYING SOUNDBITE]; 9. Mazibuko cooking, talking with her child; 10. Mazibuko sorting out cans in bag; 11. SOUNDBITE (English) Wandile Sihlobo, chief economist, Agricultural Business Chamber of South Africa (partially overlaid with shots 12-14/ending with shot 15): "Roughly 20 percent of the population has inadequate supplies of food or nutrition and that number has been rising. If you look at the statistics from pre-COVID up until today, it's been on the rise. But the dilemma of South Africa is also the fact that we are this country that sends to export markets about half of what we produce. The challenge of hunger in South Africa is not so much that there is no food that is available or that the prices are rising much faster, we are struggling with what I would call the 'income poverty', where we have a certain number of households that just have no income at all. And of course, this causes this problem because regardless of how affordable the products could be, if there is no income, there is no income." [SHOTS OVERLAYING SOUNDBITE]; 12. People at grocery store; 13. Man working in warehouse; 14. Various of people at grocery store [SHOTS OVERLAYING SOUNDBITE]; 15. Workers in warehouse; 16. People at open-air market; 17. SOUNDBITE (English) Wandile Sihlobo, chief economist, Agricultural Business Chamber of South Africa (starting with shot 16/partially overlaid with shot 18/ending with shot 19): "The response to that has to be multi-sectoral, and also, takes a socioeconomic approach whereby there's one way of saying, how do we assist the household, just like the various government grants that we have available. The second aspect is about how do we unlock growth in other sectors of the economy so that the South Africans that are fit and can work, they are able to find jobs." [SHOTS OVERLAYING SOUNDBITE]; 18. Shoppers at grocery store [SHOTS OVERLAYING SOUNDBITE]; 19. Various of people working in warehouse. [Restriction - No access Chinese mainland]