Child Deaths

Given the rate of deaths in 2023 and 2024, averaging one every second day, a delay of six months or more could mean up to another 100 deaths

Researchers say part of the problem is the lack of coordination across the nation’s sprawling multi-agency system

The Supreme Court of Appeal this week heard argument on why the law, as it now stands, is inadequate to compensate the Komape family

A Soweto teenager put himself through school by preparing graves. Now he’s an undertaker, but still gets emotional at the sight of a child’s coffin.

Despite increased efforts to improve child and maternal health, countries are still lagging behind in meeting their Millennium Development Goals.

Data shows that over 30% of parents use severe corporal punishment, but the law should not allow it, writes Carol Bower and Wessel van den Berg.

Gauteng police have opened a murder case after a seven-month-old baby boy was found dead and mutilated in a shack in the township.

Charges against four of five men accused of kidnapping, raping and killing two toddlers in Diepsloot have been withdrawn.

Protesters have gathered at the Pretoria Magistrate’s Court where five men were to appear for the rape and murder of two toddlers in Diepsloot.

Police are on the hunt for a man believed to be behind the killings in Diepsloot.

The killing of two toddlers in Diepsloot has seen residents protest in anger but it is mothers who are affected the most, writes Sarah Evans.

The killing of two toddlers in Diepsloot in the north of Johannesburg is shocking and heart-breaking, says the ANC.

ARVs have stopped children dying, now the former Aids hospice is helping them to thrive.

Having a baby in sub-Saharan Africa is riskier than anywhere else according to the latest State of the World’s Mothers report.

Experts point to gross inefficiencies in a dysfunctional healthcare system.