South Africa celebrates the first Saturday of November (7th November this year) as National Children’s Day. The day highlights progress made towards realizing and promoting the rights of children as enshrined in Section 28 of the South African Constitution and in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC). Both these documents make […]

Movements such as March and March, Operation Dudula and some of the smaller like-minded groups have repeatedly linked their recent xenophobic activities and the violence, looting, damage to property and displacement of people which flowed from these activities, to the Constitutional Court’s judgement of 7th July in what is now commonly referred to as the […]

In December 2025 Australia banned children below the age of sixteen from social media accounts. Malaysia1 followed suit, while Portugal, Spain and France announced restrictions on social media, and the UK is considering such a ban. The matter is the subject of much discussion among parents, schools, tech companies, policymakers and children themselves. BP 661 […]