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Street Children

What drives children to the streets of cities around the world?
Opinion
/ 27 November 2024

What drives children to the streets of cities around the world?

Civil war, outright war, insurgencies, poverty, natural disasters, harmful social and cultural norms and stigma are some of the reasons children are on the street

By Robert Kigongo
State fails at-risk children as R55m orphanage stands empty
National
/ 15 May 2021

State fails at-risk children as R55m orphanage stands empty

Boikagong Centre in Mahikeng has been closed for almost two years because it did not meet safety requirements. The discarded children say they want a safe place to learn, but instead endure rape and other violence

By Khaya Koko
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Article
/ 24 April 2010

Surfing gets homeless kids off Durban’s streets

A 14-year-old boy named Wonder clambers out of the ocean and on to Durban’s South Beach, exhausted after hours of surfing, and collapses on the sand.

By Griffin Shea
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Article
/ 22 January 2010

Rounded up and shipped out

Ahead of the World Cup, Durban’s street children are being forcibly removed from the city centre, writes Niren Tolsi.

By Niren Tolsi
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Article
/ 1 September 2008

A lover of the click!

Niren Tolsi checks out the incredible journey of a street child turned photographer, Haran Kumar.

By Niren Tolsi
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Article
/ 28 June 2008

Sex in the Mother City

Organisations working against trafficking could stand to lose funding after a new book finds there is little trafficking in the sex industry

By Staff Reporter and Pearlie Joubert Author

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