ISU ELIHLE AWARDS Rewarding Innovative journalism about children. ANNOUNCEMENT will be on the 22nd of November 2021.

“Isu Elihle” is an isiZulu phrase and could be translated into English as a beautiful, great or simply a neat solution. Winners will be announced on the 25th of November 2021. UNICEF South Africa

These Awards aim to encourage journalist to highlight issues that are faced by children in the continent. #IsuElihle2021 STAY TUNED!

Results are finally out, huge congrats to all of the finalists and the winners, what an amazing achievement from everyone involved.

So grateful to have been involved in this competition, for MMA and UNICEF's unwavering support of journalism involving children and all the incredible people who helped me tell these important stories and hold those in power accountable for their plight isuelihle.org.za/2021-isu-elihl…

21 months into covid and high time we ask some important questions about how the pandemic and its mitigation and management have affected children. Most importantly, why are they still being neglected in policy decisions, and why is no one asking them what they need and want?

For the Voiceless' presentation at the Gauteng provincial hearing for the Children's Amendment Bill: 27 Nov 2021 focused on SA's need for safe relinquishment laws and changes to the adoption law to protect abandoned babies and provide permanent family care youtu.be/fOUXIf_9baQ

Ke Nako! Ezra was about six weeks old when someone dressed him in a white babygrow, wrapped him in a fluffy blue blanket and left him to die in a large hole in the ground next to a highway in Johannesburg. For more on this facebook.com/BabySaversSA #KeNako #LegaliseBabySavers

Here is the first of the Ke Nako stories, a campaign, in tribute to little Ezra and run by Baby Savers SA and For the Voiceless, to motivate for safe relinquishment through baby savers to be legalised. One more life being lost or forever altered is one too many. It is time!

The 2nd story in the campaign by Baby Savers SA and For the Voiceless to get safe relinquishment through baby savers legalised. This time, baby Grace whose rescue was miraculous, but who could've been spared so much trauma if she'd been safely relinquished not abandoned in a drain.

Answering the question about why I entered the 2021 Isu Elihle competition. Such a formative experience, the mentoring, input and support provided by MMA is incredible, as were the people I worked with. What a privilege to participate and be entrusted with such painful stories.

After four years of debate and consultation around the Children’s Amendment Bill, it took only half an hour for the Social Development Portfolio Committee to decide on amendments. It was done without a clause-by-clause analysis, without reference to ... dailymaverick.co.za/article/2022-0…

Still dogged by controversy, the Children's Amendment Bill is now a shadow of its former self, with most of the contested clauses relegated to a future iteration. But how it got to this point is noteworthy, because next steps will be crucial.Daily Maverick dailymaverick.co.za/article/2022-0…

Join our discussion with 'baby savers’ Robyn WolfsonVorster & Dr Whitney Rosenberg as they discuss finding solutions to South Africa's child abandonment & late-term abortion crises. Baby Savers SA @Law_UJ Register here tinyurl.com/ye6awmrz

A privilege to speak about missing & trafficked children along with Marcel van der Watt at the annual SAPSAC conference, highlighting myths, the stories of the "still not found", elevating children's voices, challenging government policy & spotlighting the plight of SAs ghost children.

16 Days of Activism, one of the few times we speak about violence against children. But events and outrage are poor substitutes for action. Gov can minimise child homicides today with the right funded policy-related interventions. It prefers a hue and cry dailymaverick.co.za/article/2022-1…

#16daysofactivism2022: With violence against children, events and outrage are poor substitutes for action. Gov can minimise child homicides today with targeted, funded, policy-related interventions. So why doesn't it act? Daily Maverick For the Voiceless dailymaverick.co.za/article/2022-1…

R238 billion, the estimated cost to country of violence against children. Yet policing does little. As we mourn the unceasing impact of violence, we recognise that hope comes in the form of prevention programmes, like Sappin and Courage. They're quietly saving and changing lives.

As deinstitutionalisation is rolled out across Gauteng, what will become of those 0-3 year olds who are being turned away from child & youth care centres without an alternative care plan? Christmas miracle or children left out in the cold: is this really in their best interests?

SA has one of the highest rates of infanticide and neonaticide in the world. Yet, unlike Namibia, it has no plans to save lives through safe relinquishment, saying its unconstitutional. As unsafe abandonment figures run rampant, we ask, what would it take for authorities to care?