A new report on child poverty by the Department of Social Development (DSD) brings new data, including the fact that eight million children are not getting enough nutrition. With the constitutional duty on the state to ensure every child has ‘basic nutrition’, it will add pressure on the Treasu.
About 20 pensioners who were in the queue on Wednesday said they arrived on Tuesday morning but had been told at 4pm to “turn back” as the money had run out.
Ntombizanele Mntsizela committed suicide after poisoning three of her four children with ‘tank pills’, a rat poison available on the streets of Lusikisiki.
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