South Africa: Headway Made in Dealing With Child Labour

Pretoria — The Department of Labour says interventions taken to improve the social security and welfare of children have resulted in government being able to reduce the bane of child labour.

"There has been significant expansion of measures to relieve household poverty, which is the main driver of child labour. Legislation to address child labour has been strengthened substantially," the department said on Wednesday ahead of the National Day against Child Labour.

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