Thousands of kids in South Africa are subjected to child labouring. The exact number is 577,000 And 202,000 Were Injured at work. Recently Sabelo Mfeka, a paralegal journalist from Amaoti Community Resource Centre under CJN spoke on Child Labour in South Africa, Of the 11.2 million South African children aged between seven and 17‚ a shocking 577 000 were involved in child labour activities in 2015‚ Statistics South Africa has revealed.This is down from 779 000 children involved in these activities in 2010‚ according to the Survey of Activities of Young People Survey issued by StatsSA on March 16, 2017.The report defined child labour as an involvement in a number of indicators‚ which include doing work prohibited by the Basic Conditions of Employment Act‚ such as working for a wage‚ salary or any payment in kind. With the help of CJN Mfeka was able to tackle the topic in a broader aspect with the hope to empower and inform
The report defined child labour as an involvement in a number of indicators‚ which include doing work prohibited by the Basic Conditions of Employment Act‚ such as working for a wage‚ salary or any payment in kind. With the help of CJN Mfeka was able to tackle the topic in a broader aspect with the hope to empower and inform his community at large and also urge them to be very vigilant of such things as people who enslave appeal to the person lackings.
Statistics South Africa’s report says:
- There was a decline in the number of children who were involved in child labour from 779 000 in 2010 to 577 000 in 2015, this was a difference of 202 000 children.
- Children aged 16-17 years were more likely to be engaged in child labour than the other age groups.
- Black African children were more likely to be involved in child labour when compared to other population groups.
- In 2015 the difference between boys and girls involvement in child labour was minimal.
- In KwaZulu-Natal, about 1 out of 10 children was engaged in child labour and this was the highest when compared with other provinces.
- Urban areas had the lowest proportion of children involved in child labour at 2.0 percent.
- Children who appeared to be absent from school or experienced difficulties at school because of work-related activities declined by 31,000 to just 4,000 in 2015.
- The number of children who reported being injured at work also declined by 88,000 to 202,000 in 2015.
