Street Children
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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
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…
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.
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.
A lover of the click!
Niren Tolsi checks out the incredible journey of a street child turned photographer, Haran Kumar.
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