Media reports archive

This archive contains media reports on cases relevant to the Centre for Child Law, University of Pretoria.
The cases below are from 2003 - 2005.

Child Abduction

Curator to look after orphans ‘abducted’ to DRC
Pretoria News, 2 September 2005

Children in Police Cells

Six boys in court after attack on whistleblower
Publication, date unknown
Plan to remove children currently behind bars
Pretoria News, date unknown

Jailed boy (15) fears he has Aids
Publication, date unknown
Regter kap polisie oor kind in selle
Rapport, 26 October 2003
Court brings delinquent state to heel
Sunday Times, 22 February 2004
Plekkie vir 'n kind
Standerton Advertiser, 15 October 2004
System is failing kids in jail and places of safety – claim
Pretoria News, 12 November 2004

Children Serving Life

Centre tackles minors' plight
Pretoria News, 14 June 2005

Custody

In the name of the fathers
Time, 27 September 2004
Girl (6) at centre of High Court custody battle
Pretoria News, 26 March 2005

Foreign Children - Deportation

Shameful truth about SA's treatment of refugees
Publication, date unknown
Dumping children
Publication, date unknown
'Lindela' detains children illegally and dumps them across border
The Star, 4 March 2004
High court stops deportation of girls
Pretoria News, March 2004
Court asked to help in plight of foreign children
Pretoria News, 9 September 2004
SA's policy on kids 'shameful'
The Citizen, 14 September 2004
'Shameful treatment' of illegal minors slammed
The Star, 14 September 2004
State has to give legal aid to foreign children
Pretoria News, 14 September 2004
Call to return mom, child to SA
Pretoria News, 9 October 2004

International Adoption

Loophole lets foreigners 'buy' SA children
The Sunday Independent, 19 December 2004

Publication, date unknown

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Mud schools to get millions rand revamp
6 February 2011

It has taken all of 17 years, but the pupils and staff at Tembeni Senior Primary School have finally been guaranteed a proper school. On Friday afternoon the Eastern Cape department of education reached an R8-billion out-of-court settlement with seven schools, of which Tembeni is one. The schools had taken the department to court to force it to provide adequate resources. Most of the schools were built from mud and lacked the most basic resources.

Ann Skelton, director of the Centre for Child Law who took up the schools case, said yesterday although only seven schools had brought a case against the department, they were fighting on behalf of all inadequate schools. “It means that finally when the process is completed the children will be taught in decent schools. It is what they should have had all along. We were simply getting their basic rights for them. “There have been promises before, but now I have more faith that it will happen,” Skelton said.

Sarah Shepton from the Legal Resources Centre in Grahamstown, acting on behalf of the Centre for Child Law, said: “Our clients are relieved and delighted with the outcome of the litigation and intend to keep a close eye on the developments, so that promises are not broken.”
Granville Whittle, director of communications in the department of basic education, said the national department would take over the responsibility of providing infrastructure to schools in dire need, as part of its accelerated school infrastructural development initiative.

Child Abduction

Children in Police Cells

Children Serving Life

Custody

Foreign Children - Deportation

International Adoption

Mental Health

Reform School

Right to be heard

School of Industry

S v N

S v P

AD v DW and Others

Miscellaneous

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