A recently concluded research on early childhood development (ECD) has come to the conclusion that there persist many right issues among children in Umtata, Eastern Cape, South Africa. - Masikhule an ECD Organisation conducted the research. It took Masikhule about 8 months to do the research. The people in the community felt that the children in the community lost touch with the values and behaviour, that was important to the adult community in the village. The research concluded that this was a problem, the children got educated and the parents find it difficult to communicate with their children, especially those parents who are illiterate. Masikhule hope that with the research that wa…

During the summer school holidays, with often very high temperatures, children cool off in swimming pools. - Very often cases of drowning are reported in local news.

The children in Johannesburg public hospitals were almost abandoned by striking nurses and other hospital staff. Some nurses and some public hospital staff were taking part in the public service strike that went on for more than two weeks, over higher wages. Some nurses were intimidated and couldn't perform their duties that left the children in hospitals vulnerable. - Hospitals had to make use of the national army and volunteers. The army helped taking care of patients and also played a security roll, protecting the non striking nurses from the striking nurses. Children also couldn’t get their treatment they need. The children’s clinic i visited, made use of all recours…

I am a Sound Engineer and Radio producer. I currently work for Johannesburg-based ABC Ulwazi, an organization that trains journalists and produces programmes for community radios. - My tasks include proofreading scripts before recordings, editing and packaging of radio programmes.