‘The children must, at last, play in the open veld, no longer tortured by the pangs of hunger or ravaged by the disease or threatened with the scourge of ignorance, molestation and abuse, and no longer required to engage in deeds whose gravity exceeds the demands of their tender years’ (Nelson.
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The provincial government has now called on the private sector to help with funding NGOs, while the national government says the state can not afford to put money where there was no accountability.
Subsidies for child protection NGOs in the Western Cape have remained at the same level for the past five years, the Western Cape Child Protection Alliance said on Monday.