Given Covid-19, the ensuing lockdown, and the number of school days lost, the odds have been stacked against this year’s matrics. But our country’s children have previously shown us just how resilient they are
Providing effective, population-scale family support and 21st century transformative education is a nonnegotiable if we are to have any chance of eradicating violence, poverty, and inequality.
Schools in Kenya will reopen only in 2021. Meanwhile, children are getting their education on the streets, through becoming involved in petty crime
Almost 70% of the world’s maternal deaths happen in Africa. Now there’s coronavirus — and with poor prenatal and postnatal care on the continent, expectant mothers and children under five are even more vulnerable.
The future is uncertain, and the number of people suffering from anxiety and depression is rising
A large percentage don’t have access to adequate housing, food, clean water or sanitation, putting them and their families at a higher risk of the coronavirus
A free webinar discusses how to help young people struggling to find their place in the new normal without classmates and friends
Children are less likely to contract the coronavirus than adults, but the way in which the pandemic affects them goes beyond ill health
Immunisation and other preventative programmes for malaria, cholera, measles and malnutrition, which kill children in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, must continue
The court found that the law’s unequal treatment of child accused and child witnesses as well as child victims was unconstitutional.
Undocumented children are denied their right to education, and access to government school nutrition support
"Our own libraries, like some of our bookstores, seem to sneer at homegrown literature."
The recently published report card assigned South African children an overall grade of C for physical activity
Conflicts and crises impede the implementation of the UN’s fourth sustainable development goal
The Western Cape education department responds to an article in the Mail & Guardian
They learnt violence at home and in society which is marred by inequality and poverty
‘Teaching gives me a sense of completeness’
Nal’ibali, South Africa’s reading-for-enjoyment campaign, is giving away 20 mini-libraries containing 30 to 40 books for primary school children
Report unearths neglect in Kenyan institutions, yet discrimination means children may be at risk of being killed if they remain in communities
Runner-up Winner: Medi-App: Research Project
The Child Gauge highlights that black children in single or no parent households fare the worst
‘The answer is not to reject everything that comes to us in the name of culture,’ writes Amanda Khoza.
A company linked to the family initiated a drawing competition in the North West where pupils designed invitations for the lavish wedding
Individual attention is impossible to achieve in crowded classrooms
Employers should encourage mothers to claim their rights to breastfeed at work
Set up tax free savings accounts for your children now
‘I do not know where I will have my party but I have already spoken to Mama about it’
Statistics speak of numbers but they leave stories untold and questions abound
Chinese vendors have been selling videos of African children advertising products and sending messages amid criticisms of child exploitation
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Society must stay out of young women’s decision whether to have babies or not.
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Even if your child has been vaccinated, booster shots provide an extra layer of protection.