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Before the pandemic around a third of university students in South Africa were going to class hungry, according to research.
Now that problem is getting worse as part-time jobs have dried up during lockdown, and students’ families have lost work.
Bianca Nonhlanhla Skhosana is a fourth-year medical student at the University of The Witwaterstrand in Johannesburg. She is one of hundreds of students at the university who have had to turn to a food parcel programme for help.
Reporter and video journalist: Olivia Le Poidevin, BBC Minute