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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Vuyisile Hlatshwayo,
Africa Information Afrique, in pangaea.org/street_children/africa/swazi.htm [accessed 26 July 2011] Nonhlanhla Hadzebe, a timid seven-year-old says: "The last time
I saw my mother and father was when I was very little. I do not know where
they are, but I know that they are still alive. At times I sleep without
having eaten anything but I cannot complain -- to whom, anyway? I only pray
to God that one day my parents will come back so that we can all be a family
again." The study finds
that street children are often abused. Police spokesman, Sabelo
Dlamini, said that old men sodomize boys often as
young as aged nine to thirteen. Many are infected with sexually transmitted
diseases. He says the street children are enticed with E10.00 for a sex
session. Before the molestation, they are offered glue in order to keep them
in "high" spirits during the act. ***
ARCHIVES *** The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on
the Worst Forms of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/swaziland.htm [accessed 27 December 2010] INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - UNICEF estimated that 11.8 percent of children ages
5 to 14 years were working in 2000. Children work in agriculture
(particularly in the eastern region), and as domestic workers and
herders. Children are also found working on the streets as traders,
hawkers, bus and taxi conductors, load bearers, and car washers. The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on
the Worst Forms of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/swaziland.htm [accessed 27 December 2010] CHILDREN
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There were growing numbers of street children in Street kids flood capital Stories by Howard Mavuso,
January 11, 2007 This article has been archived by World
Street Children News and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 26 July 2011] JEREMIAH NHLABATSI
(12) LAVUMISA
- Just before my father passed way, my mother left us and I had to stay with
my grandmother. After a few months, I was approached by a certain woman who
promised me a job. I stayed with her for a year at Siphocosini
and she made me cook for her and look after her cattle. She never paid me and
I decided to run away. I am now staying around Mgababa
in Mbabane with my friends. I have never been to school in my life. GCINA NKHOMONDE (13)
PHILA NKHOMONDE (12) MPAKA - We came to stay with our mother at Nkwalini but since she was going out with this man (step
father) who would always come back home drunk, beat us up and tell us to go
back to where we came from, we decided to run away. We ran away because even our mother did not
care about what was happening to us. Please help - Municipal Council of Mbabane January 11, 2007 This article has been archived by World
Street Children News and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 26 July 2011] Public Relations
officer of the Municipal Council of Mbabane Bongani
Dlamini said they were greatly concerned about the
street children around town. He said
the last time they were assisted by the Swaziland Crime Prevention and
Rehabilitation of Offenders (SACRO). He said council might not know the real
reason why the children decided to live their families, but they should be
reunited with their families. THE Swaziland Crime
Prevention and Rehabilitation of offenders (SACRO) says the public should
stop spoiling street children by offering them money or gifts. Vuyisile Hlatshwayo,
Africa Information Afrique, in pangaea.org/street_children/africa/swazi.htm [accessed 26 July 2011] Nonhlanhla Hadzebe, a timid seven-year-old says: "The last time
I saw my mother and father was when I was very little. I do not know where
they are, but I know that they are still alive. At times I sleep without
having eaten anything but I cannot complain -- to whom, anyway? I only pray
to God that one day my parents will come back so that we can all be a family
again." The study finds
that street children are often abused. Police spokesman, Sabelo Dlamini, said
that old men sodomize boys often as young as aged nine to thirteen. Many are
infected with sexually transmitted diseases. He says the street children are
enticed with E10.00 for a sex session. Before the molestation, they are offered
glue in order to keep them in "high" spirits during the act. BBC News news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/country_profiles/1069035.stm [accessed 26 July 2011] Many Swazis live in
chronic poverty and food shortages are widespread. Aids is taking a heavy toll. With an adult
HIV prevalence of 26 percent in 2007, Traditional
leaders rescue James Hall, Daily Mail & Guardian, www.aegis.com/news/DMG/2000/MG000406.html [accessed 26 July 2011] The Manzini-based Swaziland Action Group Against Abuse
reports that some of the city's new population of homeless street children
have become victims of sexual abuse.
Street children were unknown in Manzini and
the capital UN Integrated Regional Information Networks
IRIN PlusNews, www.plusnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportID=37494 [accessed 26 July 2011] "Street
children are flocking to Manzini like no other place, and migrant workers
hopeful of work are enlarging the informal settlement slums ringing the
town," said AIDS activist Pholile Dlamini. Out of a national population of 970,000, Michael Wines, Sharon Lafraniere,
New York Times, Lavumisa Click [here]
to access the article. Its URL is not
displayed because of its length [accessed 2 October 2011] That is just the
dead and the dying. There is also the world they leave behind. One in 10
children here is an orphan because of AIDS. They are street children,
prostitutes and dropouts. It has forced grandparents, sisters and aunts to
care for children they don't want. It has bred destitution, hunger and
desperation. At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 26 July 2011] ACHIEVEMENTS - We have
reconciled upward of 80 street children with their families; We have returned most of the former street
children to the formal education system;
We have solicited, and found sponsorship for almost all of them. Common Country
Assessment - McDermott, M.D., Mbabane, 1997 [accessed 26 July 2011] 4.2
CHILD RIGHTS AND PROTECTION - The emergence of street children is a comparatively
recent phenomenon, still puzzling to many. This is because the breakdown in
social structures, including landlessness, has not yet occurred in All
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