By Loushe Jordaan Gilbert Society usually perceives sexual offending as crimes committed by adult men against women, and/or children of both sexes. Those who commit sex offenses against minors and younger children are often believed to be paedophiles, but this is not always the case. Unfortunately, juveniles themselves are also[…]
The State has revised the charges against Asanda Makaluza, accused of pouring hot water on a child in Langa, on the Cape Flats, to attempted murder. Makaluza appeared in the Bishop Lavis Magistrate’s Court where she was denied bail. According to National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) spokesperson Eric Ntabazalila, the original[…]
The family of a Grade 9 learner who died from suicide after being teased by a teacher are planning to take legal action against PJ Simelane Secondary School. They told Eyewitness News that the school is protecting the teacher in question. This comes after 15-year-old Tiro Moalusi took his own[…]
The high court has thrown the book at a Western Cape couple for child murder, abuse and neglect. Taswell Louw will serve 18 years behind bars for the murder of three-year-old Jeremiah Speak. His wife Renzia will serve a five-year jail term for child abuse and neglect. Renzia was Jeremiah’s[…]
A child rights expert has emphasised that failing to report sexual abuse against children is a criminal offence. It comes on the heels of a widely circulated video alleging sexual abuse perpetrated by two well-respected brothers in the Bo-Kaap community, which family members were reportedly made aware of. Now in[…]
Women and Men against Child Abuse says it would have liked to have seen a heftier sentence for the woman caught on camera assaulting three children at a creche in Carletonville, west of Johannesburg. Nelly Senwametsi (42) was sentenced to 5 years behind bars by the Oberholzer Magistrates’ Court on[…]
Although the increased focus on violence against women and children by government and civil society is laudable, it is insufficient if there is to be any hope of changing South Africa’s social environment. Lucy Jamieson, a senior researcher at UCT’s Children’s Institute, said there’s a problematic societal acceptance of violence[…]
The Constitutional Court of South Africa has officially ruled that corporal punishment is unacceptable under the current provisions of the constitution. Parents are no longer able to use “modest and reasonable [physical] chastisement” or “physical correction” in an effort to instil discipline in their children. The court upheld the South[…]
It’s official. You cannot smack your children. The Constitutional Court has upheld the 2017 ruling against corporal punishment in the home. READ: ConCourt says spanking your child at home is illegal The South Gauteng High Court had struck down the defence of reasonable chastisement, saying physical discipline violates children’s rights. Sonke[…]
WARNING: This story contains graphic details Nicholas Ninow, who pleaded guilty to rape, is expected to hear his fate on Monday when the Gauteng High Court in Pretoria makes a pronouncement on the charges he faced. Ninow, who admitted to raping a seven-year-old girl in a Dros restaurant’s bathroom in Pretoria[…]
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