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POLITICALLY AWEH: Hunger is political: Activist Mark Heywood on SA’s food crisis

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Host KG Mokgadi sits down with veteran activist and former editor of Maverick Citizen Mark Heywood to unpack South Africa’s deepening food crisis, and why hunger should be treated as a political emergency. Heywood pulls no punches in his criticism of South Africa’s political leaders and corporations which oversee a food system that produces enough food for all while millions of people still go hun...
The narrative employs a powerful moral panic by centering hunger as an indictment of political and corporate structures, thereby framing food insecurity not as an economic problem but as a fundamental violation of human dignity and constitutional rights. The argument that hunger is "political" is a key mechanism for shifting responsibility away from individual consumption and toward systemic accountability. This framing strategically links food crises to broader themes of climate injustice and c...