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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. CHILDREN
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There were growing numbers of street children in Mbabane and Manzini. A large
and increasing number of HIV/AIDS orphans were cared for by aging relatives
or neighbors, or they struggled to survive in child‑headed households.
Some lost their property to adult relatives. The National Emergency Response
Committee on HIV and AIDS, a private group partly funded by the government
and by international aid, and other NGOs assisted some AIDS orphans. Street kids flood
capital Stories by Howard Mavuso, January 11, 2007 streetchildrennews.wordpress.com/2007/01/11/street-kids-flood-capital/ [accessed 8 January
2017] 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 streetchildrennews.wordpress.com/2007/01/11/please-help-municipal-council-of-mbabane/ [accessed 8 January
2017] 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. Swaziland country
profile 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] www.ipsnews.net/2000/04/culture-swaziland-traditional-leaders-to-the-rescue/ [accessed 8 January
2017] 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.irinnews.org/report/37494/swaziland-grassroots-approach-to-orphan-care [accessed 10 March
2015] "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, Swaziland Child Protection
Report, 1997 www.law.yale.edu/rcw/rcw/jurisdictions/afs/swaziland/Swaziland_Child%20Protection%20Report_Dir/Swaziland _Child%20Protection%20Report_Page1.htm [accessed 15 October
2012] 4.2 Child Rights And
Protection www.slideshare.net/vuminyembe/ingcamu-3 [accessed 8 January
2017] [page 30] 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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