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Three generations together

http://www.dispatch.co.za/article.aspx?id=275328

Friday, November 28, 2008

DENISE Measures and her husband John have raised two children and until four years ago were looking forward to their own retirement. But today the...

Court asked to think of victim in child rapist’s sentence

http://www.dispatch.co.za/article.aspx?id=274896

Thursday, November 27, 2008

By ADRIENNE CARLISLE SOCIETY suffered a crushing defeat at the hands of young men who routinely chose young children as victims of their...

Protest delays teenagers’ bail bid

http://www.dispatch.co.za/article.aspx?id=274526

Wednesday, November 26, 2008

THREE Port Alfred teenagers accused of abducting and murdering a five-year-old boy last week appeared briefly in the local magistrates court...

SOUTH AFRICA: Foreigners (still) beware

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Saturday, November 22, 2008

CAPE TOWN Friday, November 21, 2008 (IRIN) - As Aunesi Omari and her children cowered in her room in Philippi, a low-income section of the South...

City schools packed – despite rocketing fees Hundreds turned away while township enrolments dip

http://www.dispatch.co.za/article.aspx?id=272984

Friday, November 21, 2008

EAST London schools are bursting at the seams and hundreds of children are being turned away as township and rural families look to the city for...

Grace Mashaba, "In trafficking there are many people involved"

Thursday, October 30, 2008

Grace Mashaba, 60, is the founder of the Amazing Grace Children's Home in the town of Malelane, in South Africa's northeastern province of...

SOUTH AFRICA: Chakras and children

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Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Twenty years into the pandemic, people are looking for new ways to live with HIV, and for some alternative medicine has become part of the answer. ...

Critical health care fails to reach most women and children in high mortality countries despite gains in fighting child killer diseases

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Monday, April 21, 2008

World’s health leaders and parliamentarians convene to address accelerated action to reduce maternal and child deaths Leading global health...

UNICEF welcomes signing of Children’s Act into law in South Africa

Saturday, April 12, 2008

UNICEF today welcomed the signing of the Children’s Amendment Act by the President of the Republic of South Africa, calling it a major step in...

SOUTH AFRICA: HIV major factor in rising child deaths

Monday, March 24, 2008

Mothers and children in South Africa are dying in alarming numbers. Far from being on track to meet the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of reducing...

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