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Tamsin Metelerkamp

20 articles in the last 12 months · 2 sources · South Africa

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CHILDREN FIRST: How you can put early childhood learning needs on municipal agendas

CYBER SAFETY: SA Human Rights Commission urges stronger laws to protect children online

BANA PELE: ECD subsidy expands as government races to close SA’s one-million-child gap

CRYING SHAME: ECD nutrition tender postponed eight times as Eastern Cape children wait for food

CHILD NUTRITION: New tool shows the true cost of nutritious meals for children at ECD centres

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LOCAL ELECTIONS TOUR: Sewage spills, service cuts, repeated audit failures — inside one of SA’s worst-run municipalities

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SOCIAL (IN)SECURITY: Caregivers fight to make ends meet on below-food-poverty-line Child Support Grant

MEN AT WORK: South African men are learning to tell stories and raise a generation of readers

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FEMINIST HISTORY: Pacifist Emily Hobhouse’s 1926 state funeral to be brought back to life in Bloemfontein

LIVING NIGHTMARE: QwaQwa residents battle 10-year water, electricity outage ‘nightmare’

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Watch – Inside Sassa’s grant review: Queues, outages, suspensions

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WORDS OF CAUTION: Ramaphosa urges caution on AI advancements, echoing developers

LIVING IN FEAR: Too early to confirm link between four women found dead in Kempton Park

CRISIS OF CARE: Sassa’s R2,400 Care Dependency Grant leaves parents of children with disabilities stretched thin

RESPONSIBLE LEADERSHIP: The ‘child from a village’ who helped reshape SA’s early childhood development sector

SYSTEMS CHANGE: Zaheera Mohamed brings public finance savvy to the fight for ECD systems change

CHILD PROTECTION PART 3: Hunted into exile: Gang terror forces Cape Flats activist to flee, splitting family

CHILD PROTECTION PART 2: Community-led interventions crucial for healing children exposed to violence in SA

CHILD PROTECTION PART 1: Missing stats on crimes against women, children in SAPS quarterly reports a troubling trend

PAY UP: High court orders KZN education department to pay overdue ECD subsidies