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Media Reports
Media Reports
  Most of these media reports, relevant to the Centre for Child Law, are in Adobe Acrobat format.
Sizes of the files are in brackets, as they are rather large. 		 
Child Abduction
 
  1. Curator to look after orphans ‘abducted’ to DRC, Pretoria News, 2 September 2005. View (Size: 496kb)
  2. Boy (10) seeks to stay in SA with dad, Pretoria News, 14 March 2006. View (Size: 426kb)
  
Children in Police Cells
 
  1. Six boys in court after attack on whistleblower, View (Size: 130kb)
  2. Court brings delinquent state to heel, Sunday Times, 22 February 2004. View (Size: 426kb)
  3. Plekkie vir 'n kind, Standerton Advertiser, 15 October 2004. View (Size: 703kb)
  4. Jailed boy (15) fears he has Aids, View (Size: 338kb)
  5. System is failing kids in jail and places of safety – claim, Pretoria News, 12 November 2004. View (Size: 310kb)
  6. Plan to remove children currently behind bars, Pretoria News. View (Size: 168kb)
  7. Regter kap polisie oor kind in selle, Rapport, 26 October 2003. View (Size: 828kb)
  
Children Serving Life
 
  1. Centre tackles minors' plight , Pretoria News, 14 June 2005. View (Size: 220kb)
  
Custody
 
  1. Girl (6) at centre of High Court custody battle, Pretoria News, 26 March 2005. View (Size: 483kb)
  2. In the name of the fathers, Time, 27 September 2004. View
  
Foreign Children - Deportation
 
  1. State has to give legal aid to foreign children, Pretoria News, 14 September 2004. View (Size: 348kb)
  2. High court stops deportation of girls, Pretoria News, March 2004. View (Size: 500kb)
  3. Call to return mom, child to SA , Pretoria News, 9 October 2004. View (Size: 424kb)
  4. SA's policy on kids 'shameful' , The Citizen, 14 September 2004. View (Size: 550kb)
  5. 'Shameful treatment' of illegal minors slammed, The Star, 14 September 2004. View (Size: 424kb)
  6. Court asked to help in plight of foreign children, Pretoria News, 9 September 2004. View (Size: 612kb)
  7. Shameful truth about SA's treatment of refugees, View (Size: 1000kb)
  8. 'Lindela' detains children illegally and dumps them across border, The Star, 4 March 2004. View (Size: 632kb)
  9. Dumping children, View (Size: 200kb)
  
International Adoption
 
  1. Loophole lets foreigners 'buy' SA children, The Sunday Independent, 19 December 2004. View (Size: 860kb)
  
Mental Health
 
  1. Plan met Sterkfontein-tieners, Beeld, 19 April 2005. View (Size: 388kb)
  2. 'Verlore' kinders se lot vandag in kollig, Beeld, 11 February 2005. View (Size: 300kb)
  3. No one hears their cries, View (Size: 660kb)
  4. Drugged, caged, sodomized, Pretoria News, 1 February 2005. View (Size: 1500kb)
  5. Ray of hope for 'forgotten' children, View (Size: 376kb)
  6. New Mental Health Care Act, View (Size: 204kb)
  7. State lets down mentally-ill children, Pretoria News, 10 March 2005. View (Size: 520kb)
  8. Gruweldade teen kinders in staatsinstelling skok, Rapport, 6 February 2005. View (Size: 484kb)
  9. Project to advance children's litigation rights, This Day, 15 October 2003. View (Size: 164kb)
  10. Sussies slaan slag vir kinders in skeisake, Rapport, 27 June 2004. View (Size: 576kb)
  11. Teacher ties up teen like a dog, Sunday Times, 11 September 2005. View (Size: 1500kb)
  12. Litigating for children with psychiatric, psychological and emotional needs. View (Size: 1900kb)
  
Reform School
 
  1. Judges order release of wrongly-jailed teenagers, View (Size: 352kb)
  2. 'Release teens now!', Pretoria News, 14 November 2005. View (Size: 296kb)
  3. Teens in jail – against magistrate's orders, Pretoria News, 9 November 2005. View (Size: 1000kb)
  
Right to be heard
 
  1. Now children have a say in court, View (Size: 420kb)
  2. Kinders moet gehoor word, Rapport, 25 April 2004. View (Size: 1100kb)
  3. The law is not an ass, Pretoria News, 24 June 2004. View (Size: 272kb)
  4. Principles on children's rights are on way, Star, 28 June 2004. View (Size: 460kb)
  5. Ruling a triumph for kids' rights, Pretoria News, 23 June 2004. View (Size: 500kb)
  6. Children given a say court, 23 June 2004. View (Size: 564kb)
  7. Children need to know how to litigate, Pretoria News, 28 June 2004. View (Size: 588kb)
  
School of Industry
 
  1. School 'abused kids', Saturday Star, 21 May 2005. View (Size: 637kb)
  2. Court throws book at industrial school, Pretoria News, 11 May 2005. View (Size: 395kb)
  3. Tough school is 'put on terms', The Citizen, 11 May 2005. View (Size: 355kb)
  4. Nywerheidskool mag meisies nie aanrand, Beeld, 19 April 2005. View (Size: 235kb)
  5. Dad wants to sue school after teen's death View (Size: 385kb)
  6. Father desperate over teen's Jik death, Saturday Star, 9 April 2005. View (Size: 550kb)
  
S v N
 
  1. ‘I killed her to punish my mother’, The Witness, 1 July 2005. View
  
S v P
 
  1. State takes another step to jail youngest female murderer, View
  2. Teen killer's sentence sets a legal precedent , View (Size: 604kb)
  3. Youngest killer will not go to jail, View
  4. State has 'failed to honour its promise', View
  5. State says sentence was too lenient, Sunday Tribune Herald, 30 January 2005. View (Size: 240kb)
  6. Bid to keep girl (14) out of jail, Pretoria News, 17 December 2004. View (Size: 472kb)
  7. State wants girl to go to jail, The Witness, 16 December 2004. View (Size: 544kb)
  8. Teen killer in suicide bid – twice, View (Size: 364kb)
  9. Girl who had gran killed was 'abused', Pretoria News, 14 December 2004. View (Size: 252kb)
  10. Kill my gran for me, please, You, 21 October 2004. View (Size: 1500kb)
  11. Meisie (14) skuldig aan moord, Beeld, 8 October 2004. View (Size: 312kb)
  12. Girl (14) convicted of murder, Pretoria News, 8 October 2004. View (Size: 232kb)
  13. Guilty, but where to put her, Pretoria News, October 2004. View (Size: 624kb)
  14. SA's youngest girl murderer, View
  15. Girl faces verdict in murder case, View
  16. I regretted it, says murder trial teen, View (Size: 668kb)
  17. Teenager 'was close to victim', The Mercury, 13 August 2004. View (Size: 368kb)
  18. Girl was in emotional turmoil about murder, says psychologist, The Mercury, 19 August 2004. View (Size: 392kb)
  19. Girl (12) told men to murder, The Mercury, 11 August 2004. View
  20. I was forced to kill gran, Natal Witness, 11 August 2004. View (Size: 856kb)
  21. Girl's trial: man owed murder victim money, The Sunday Independent, 12 August 2004. View (Size: 544kb)
  22. Murdered woman 'was close to girl', Natal Witness, 13 August 2004. View (Size: 264kb)
  23. Peer pressure draws children to violence, Sunday Tribune, 15 August 2004. View (Size: 748kb)
  24. Girl 'seemed older than her years', Witness, 17 August 2004. View (Size: 348kb)
  25. I didn't know it was wrong, claims girl, Witness, 18 August 2004. View (Size: 432kb)
  26. Girl 'had no motive to kill', Witness, 19 August 2004. View (Size: 316kb)
  27. Govender case goes to argument, 20 August 2004. View (Size: 144kb)
  28. Granny's family shuns teenage killer's apology, View (Size: 828kb)
  29. 'Jail killer girl', Daily News, 10 November 2005. View (Size: 900kb)
  30. State argues for jail, Witness, 10 November 2005. View
  31. Teen killer again escapes jail term, Pretoria News, 2 December 2005. View (Size: 792kb)
  32. State in third attempt to imprison child killer, Pretoria News, 9 November 2005. View (Size: 824kb)
  
Miscellaneous
 
  1. Police slated for ‘Nazi-like’ raid on shelter, Pretoria News, 8 October 2005. View (Size: 488kb)
  2. Hofbevel oor vonnis raak kinders van enkelouers, Die Burger, 16 October 2006. View (Size: 581kb)
  3. Girl(6) to have brain operation despite dad's refusal, Pretoria News, 26 October 2006. View (Size: 911kb)
  4. Adoption called into question in court, Pretoria News, 28 October 2006. View (Size: 738kb)
  5. Mother pleads for 'missing' baby to be returned, Pretoria News, 30 October 2006. View (Size: 1002kb)
  6. Girl to go under the knife on Monday, Pretoria News, 1 November 2006. View (Size: 575kb)
  7. Lawyer reveals where baby is. View (Size: 507kb)
  
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