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This data contains the average number of children who received meals per financial year through the National School Nutrition Programme (NSNP) in public schools in South Africa and the nine provinces. The programme aims to reach children attending public schools located in lower socioeconomic areas (or quintile 1 - 3 schools). Note: the data is patchy and incomplete because there is no one source. The NSNP produced annual reports up to 2013/2014. After that information on the number of children reached per year was not published in one place or consistently. The information from 2014/2015 onwards was extracted from the annual reports of the Department of Basic Education, the provincial education departments and, in the case of 2025/2026, a presentation by the NSNP presented in parliament. Caution: The provincial data extracted for 2015/2016 from the provincial annual reports does not add up to the South African total extracted from the DBE annual report.
Last updated: 14 August 2026
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This dataset contains the number of public schools per financial year where children were fed through the National School Nutrition Programme (NSNP) in South Africa and the nine provinces. The NSNP aims to reach public schools located in lower socioeconomic areas (or quintile 1 - 3 schools). Note: the data is patchy and incomplete because there is no one source. The NSNP produced annual reports up to 2013/2014. After that information on the number of schools reached per year was not published in one place or consistently. The information from 2014/2015 onwards was extracted from the annual reports of the Department of Basic Education, the provincial education departments and, in the case of 2025/2026, a parliamentary presentation by the NSNP in parliament.
Last updated: 14 August 2026
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