June 1, 2017

Undocumented children share stories of strife

Johannesburg � Janet* was born at home to a foreign mother, who passed away before her birth was registered.

After her mother’s death, she was placed in a children’s home. However, social workers could not register her birth because there was no South African citizen who could verify the account

CAPE TOWN’S WATER CRISIS OF CATASTROPHIC PROPORTIONS, SAYS MAYOR

CAPE TOWN, Cape Town Mayor Patricia de Lille has described the scenario of the city running out of usable water as a “crisis of catastrophic proportions” and warned that water scarcity in the Mother City is now the “new normal”.In a speech to a full Co…

Attacked for Body Parts, Tanzanian Albino Children Get New Limbs in US

PHILADELPHIA � Emmanuel Rutema couldn’t keep the smile off his face as he tested out his new prosthetic arm and promptly knocked himself on the nose.

“Be careful with your face!” the hospital prosthetist told the boy whose grin just grew wider.

Rutema is one of four Tanzanian children with albinism visiting

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