The Eastern Cape department of social development has pleaded poverty in response to cries for more funding by non-government organisations dealing with children.
Lwanda Njobeni, 20, has lived on the streets of Buffalo City for three years. He is one of thousands of homeless youths sleeping, eating, suffering and hanging onto life on the cold, hard Eastern Cape streets.
A 30-year-old woman was taken to hospital after collapsing shortly before the proceedings of the mass funeral of 21 young people in Scenery Park on Wednesday morning.
Matriculant Unakho Ratiye might be just 17, but the Baziya-born youngster cannot wait to go to university to study civil engineering so he can design and build a proper bridge for his community.