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TMG Digital reports that Statistics SA has revealed that 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.
Yet, this was down from the 779,000 children involved in these activities in 2010 according to the Survey of Activities of Young People issued by StatsSA on Thursday. The report defined child labour as an involvement in a number of indicators‚ which included doing work prohibited by the Basic Conditions of Employment Act‚ such as working for a wage‚ salary or any payment in kind. The indicators also included children working for more hours per week at home at tasks such as fetching water and firewood‚ and school-related work unrelated to study. Another indicator was where a child was doing work that interfered with schooling and where a child was absent from school because of work-related activities. A further indicator was a child doing hazardous work such as working with explosives and carrying heavy loads.
- Read this report by Ernest Mabuza in full at TimesLive
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