November 09, 2023
South Africa: 114 Children Have Died of Malnutrition in the Eastern Cape - Report
According to statistics kept by the Eastern Cape Department of Health, 1,722 children under the age of five in the province were newly diagnosed with severe acute malnutrition… Read more »
South Africa: Child Malnutrition in the Eastern Cape 'Qualifies As a Disaster' - Rights Commission Report
Child malnutrition in the Eastern Cape should be declared a disaster in terms of the Disaster Management Act and compel the government to intervene immediately and decisively. This… Read more »
June 26, 2023
South Africa: One Child One Family - Giving Children a Voice and Preventing Harm
The nonprofit organisation One Child One Family recently gave children a chance to creatively express their issues and rights. The organisation has also established networks to… Read more »
June 13, 2023
South Africa: Nonprofit Help2read Steps in to Help Save a 'Lost Generation'
Education nonprofit help2read is placing the youth at the centre of their approach to South Africa's reading crisis. By employing young people from local communities as literacy… Read more »
May 12, 2023
South Africa: Cape Peninsula University of Technology Closes Campuses After Violent Protests, Arson
The Cape Peninsula University of Technology has closed its campuses, postponed an Open Day scheduled for Saturday, 13 May and cancelled all its operations and activities after… Read more »
March 14, 2023
South Africa: UCT Protests - 'Clearly Something Has to Change - There Is a Bigger Story to This'
Students at UCT told Daily Maverick how they feel about ongoing protests at the university that have been spurred by NSFAS-related housing issues and financial exclusion. Read more »
South Africa: Rahima Moosa Mother and Child Hospital is a Filthy and Neglected Mess, Says Health Ombud
Rahima Moosa Mother & Child Hospital has been neglected over the years, said Professor Malegapuru Makgoba, the health ombud. The Office of the Health Ombud released its report… Read more »
February 16, 2023
South Africa: Cape Town Learners Stranded By 'Taxi Mafia' Blocking Scholar Transport
Parents and their children from Khayelitsha and surrounding areas were left frustrated this week as minibus taxi operators blocked scholar transport from taking children to school. Read more »
July 06, 2022
South Africa: Looking for Khayalethu Magadla - the Rescuers Share Their Own Stories of Pain and Sadness
For three weeks, 35 members of the City of Johannesburg Emergency Management Services navigated their way through sewer pipelines in their bid to retrieve the body of six-year-old… Read more »
June 29, 2022
South Africa: Children's Rights to Nutrition Must Be Put At the Centre of Food Systems, Conference Is Told
Children's rights to food and adequate nutrition took centre stage on Thursday evening at the Agriculture, Nutrition and Health Academy Week hosted jointly by Stellenbosch… Read more »
June 20, 2022
South Africa: Mental Wellbeing of Children 'Should Be Linked With Every Other Socioeconomic Right' - Report
A new report says mental health should be a socioeconomic right as 10% to 20% of South African children will develop a mental disorder and/or a neurodevelopmental disability. Read more »
June 16, 2022
South Africa: Young People March to Union Buildings to Present Demands for a Better Future
At a Youth Day Parade on Thursday, more than 1,000 young people from a range of organisations marched to the Union Buildings in Pretoria in pursuit of systemic change. In a… Read more »
South Africa: Opposition Parties Slam the ANC Government for Failing SA's Young People
There's nothing to celebrate this Youth Day, opposition parties argue because young people have no future under the ANC government. Read more »
South Africa: 16 June - So What, When the Youth Cannot Freely Express Themselves 46 Years Later?
Youth Day, 16 June, is here again - and we will go about it with the same activities and conversations as usual. Read more »
South Africa: 'The Future and the Youth Are Inseparable' - Youth Perspectives On GBV and Combating a Social Scourge
Gender-based violence and femicide feature prominently among the concerns of South Africa's youth, as evidenced by the highlighting of this issue within a youth-generated… Read more »
South Africa: 'Youth Are Starved of Opportunities', Say Experts Ahead of Youth Day
Young experts say a collaboration between government, institutions of higher learning and consultations with youth is the best approach to curb youth unemployment in South Africa.… Read more »
South Africa: Organised Young People Are the Enablers of a Just Education System
The capacity of young people to organise is a tool for liberation in South Africa's communities. Young people have long played a key role in the fight for a just education system… Read more »
June 14, 2022
South Africa: The Future of Our Youth Must Be a 365-Day-a-Year Concern and Not Just a June Event
Makashule Gana is a Member of the Gauteng Provincial Legislature and the DA Gauteng Shadow MEC for Economic Development. Read more »
June 13, 2022
South Africa: Minor Is One of 11 Suspects in Court for the Killing of E-Hailing Driver Abongile Mafalala
Abongile Mafalala was stabbed, beaten with spades and set alight after fake news spread that he had kidnapped a child. Read more »
May 16, 2022
South Africa: First Early Childhood Development Census Reveals Underfunded and Underqualified Sector
The results of the Early Childhood Development Census 2021 were released on Friday, 13 May. The new data will be used for a centralised management information system to improve… Read more »
April 28, 2022
South Africa: An Interdict On Covid-19 Teen Vaccination Will Harm Basic Education and Violate Pupils' Rights
The African Christian Democratic Party and partners are in the high court on Thursday and Friday, seeking to stop the roll-out of Covid-19 vaccines to adolescents. But, given that… Read more »