Gauteng Social Development’s October ban of baby savers as a place to relinquish babies followed 10 years of advocacy by civil society to prevent unsafe abandonment. Government...
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Why are the lives of Namibian babies more valuable than ours?
It’s been four years since Namibia legalised ‘safe relinquishment’. This followed government, civil society and the ruling party’s youth and women’s leagues declaring child...
Dead abandoned babies, why doesn’t South Africa end this tragedy?
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Safe relinquishment: Finding solutions to South Africa’s child abandonment and late-term abortion crisis
Catholic Bishops Liaison Office Watch on Youtube High levels of crisis pregnancies in South Africa and limited options lead large numbers of desperategirls and women to abandon...
An open dialogue: legislation around legal and safe baby relinquishment
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The truth behind SA’s shocking child abandonment statistics
Lockdown has seen a spate of unthinkable child abandonments – a toddler discarded in a dustbin; a six-week-old baby found at midnight in a hole next to a highway; a toddler left...
Child abandonment in South Africa during lockdown increases
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Abandonment interview e.tv Morning Show 24 June 2019
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Is child abandonment really murder?
In early 2019, a country largely anaesthetised to the plight of abandoned children was shaken by several abandonments too shocking to ignore: A newborn trapped in a stormwater...
Cases of child abandonment in South Africa: Robyn Wolfson Vorster
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#IAM Nameless: The untold story of South Africa’s abandoned babies
During Child Protection Week 2018, the #IAM campaign aimed to name the child victims of violence across the country, and tell their stories. But as the shocking accounts of some...
#BabiesMatter, or do they?
Over the 16 Days of Activism for No Violence Against Women and Children, an intensive campaign run by veteran child protection activist Luke Lamprecht called #BabiesMatter...
Abandoned children: Lost or found(ling), what’s in a name?
In a country that does so little to prevent abandonment, make it safer, or provide optimal care solutions for survivors, the language used to describe abandoned children amounts...
Home Affairs names and shames SA’s abandoned children
Child abandonment is a scourge in South Africa. As numbers soar, the battle is on to ensure that abandonment does not permanently define the lives of survivors. But those efforts...
When justice forgets to be blind: Lessons from the ‘latrine baby’ case
It has been more than three months since Judge Mabel Jansen’s racist comments on social media forced the country to interrogate questions of judicial objectivity and the...
Gone without a trace: The shocking fate of South Africa’s abandoned children
Stereotypical pictures of illegal abortion practices are of doctors with bloodied aprons and carving knives, but modern “clinics” are usually run by criminals. Women are...
Abandoned children, SA’s dirty little secret
Around 3,500 children are abandoned in South Africa annually. News of yet another child found dead or left in a precarious position elicits strong public condemnation and...
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