More than half of all children in the country live mired in poverty and its getting worse, according to a new report on Child Poverty in South Africa. | TheCapeArgus
Cape Town – More than half of all children in the country live mired in poverty and it's getting worse, according to a new report on Child Poverty in South Africa.
According to the survey: “Those living in non-metropolitan municipalities indicate much higher multidimensional poverty rates than children in metropolitan municipalities . A child is said to be multidimensionally poor when they are living in households where they are deprived of at least three out of seven dimensions of poverty.
“The Western Cape has 37%, this includes the vulnerable groups such as children living on the streets, children living under very poor conditions on the farms. We also cannot forget the child-headed households,” said ANC spokesperson on social development, Gladys Bakubaku-Vos. The chairperson of the legislature’s standing committee on social development, Gillion Bosman, said: “The failure of the national government to release social relief of distress has created a situation where families are going hungry.
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