/ 4 May 2025

Baby Savers South Africa fights back as Gauteng department cracks down on centres

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Caregivers: The Gauteng department of social development has ordered centres which care for abandoned infants to close but some are going to court to fight this.

Organisations are going to court to challenge the constitutionality of Children’s Act provisions

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