It’s harvest time at the Lentegeur Psychiatric Hospital’s food garden in Mitchells Plain and just under 50kg of organic produce from this garden is being used by the Shoprite Mobile Soup Kitchen to feed community members in Wesbank and Khayelitsha.

The Shoprite Group goes to great lengths to protect its customers and employees in the fight against crime with preventative actions but also playing its role in ensuring the arrest and prosecution of criminals.

The Shoprite Group has heeded the call from Gift of the Givers to assist in the water crisis currently crippling Johannesburg hospitals - and it has empowered customers to donate directly to the humanitarian organisation’s work on the ground.

Amos Mathebula from Morgenzon, Mpumalanga left the bright lights of the entertainment industry to turn family land into a food garden and business venture. The lack of food security in Mathebula’s community as well as his entrepreneurial ambitions motivated him to start the Too Fresh Produce Cooperative.

Local plant supplier Fado Art has seen phenomenal growth since the company started supplying their range of succulents to Checkers, and has expanded the scope of its operation and rapidly increased its headcount to meet demand.

Checkers Sixty60 is now available in all nine provinces in South Africa - after launching in Polokwane, Limpopo today.

The Shoprite Group has a fundraising drive in all of its 764 Shoprite, Checkers and Checkers Hyper supermarkets countrywide in an effort to combat stunting, which impacts 1.5 million South African children, with 3 out of every 10 children suffering chronic malnutrition.

Shoprite and Checkers are once again calling on all South Africans with a stellar boerewors recipe, to enter the country’s leading boerewors competition.

The Shoprite Group is adding 39 solar-powered refrigerated rigid trucks to its existing solar-powered fleet of 749 trailers by the end of June 2021.

The food garden at the Nokuphila Community Services in Springs, east of Johannesburg, helps to feed 450 school children two wholesome meals a day. Following a recent partnership with Shoprite, the organisation hopes to reach even more vulnerable community members over the next year.

With a passion for tackling unemployment in his community, Xolani Siwa and five other community members formed the Lim’uphile Agricultural Cooperative in Walmer, Port Elizabeth, around eight years ago.

Heavy rains in Limpopo during January and February have caused havoc in the tomato industry in recent weeks - but by diversifying its supply chain, and partnering with innovative suppliers like Red Baron, the Shoprite Group was able to keep tomatoes on its supermarkets’ shelves.