A 2024 Unicef report found that 23% of South African children experience severe food poverty, eating less than two of the ...

In South Africa, we wish to break that cycle. Single-parent households contribute to child poverty in South Africa. In the absence of a partner, sole parents with young children are more likely ...

Let me take this opportunity to express my gratitude to the CEO, the board and management of the Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund for successfully bringing the 2nd Biennial Africa Children’s Summit to ...

The most common conditions of maltreatment include parental drug and alcohol abuse, severe mental illness, domestic violence ...

Human Rights Watch is honored to address the African Committee of Experts at its 45th Ordinary Session, and join it in celebrating 35 years since the adoption of the African Children’s Charter.

The Africa Children’s Summit 2025 is the result of a long-standing partnership between the South African Government, through ...

Ntsiki Khunju is a passionate writer, child protection advocate ... homelessness, and poverty — a crisis that grips South Africa’s youth with unrelenting ferocity. Sidewalks serve as makeshift ...

The £1.6m comes from the Household Support Fund, originally set up during the Covid pandemic. The Department for Communities is due to publish it's anti-poverty strategy as poverty figures show ...