SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
Child murders call for action from all in business
Companies looking to develop a corporate social investment strategy can help cash-strapped NGOs serving vulnerable children
Not a month goes by without the murder of a child making the headlines. In the Western Cape alone, three children were murdered in May, including Courtney Pieters, 3, whose body was found in a field near her home in Elsies River. She had allegedly been raped before she was killed. Iyapha Yamile, 4, of Khayelitsha, whose half-naked body was found stuffed in a plastic bag in a public toilet, is also believed to have been raped. A two-year-old toddler, also from Khayelitsha, who was certified dead on arrival at hospital, was also raped, allegedly by her father. In March, two young girls were murdered: Stacha Arendse, 11, and Rene Roman, 13. Stacha’s body was found in a field not far from her Tafelsig home and Rene’s decomposed body was reportedly found in a shed near her home in Lavender Hill on Human Rights Day. Violence, including violence against children, is pervasive in SA. The sexual abuse of children and adolescents is widespread "and possibly worse than previously estimated", a...
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