The reaction on social media is overwhelming after a day-old baby was found around 20h00 on Monday night in a Beaufort-West water drain — on world adoption day. “Annually more than 3,500 babies are found in sewer pipes, rubbish bins, dense fields and even buried in shallow graves, because their
Annually more than 3,500 babies are found in sewer pipes, garbage bins, isolated fields and even buried in shallow graves because their desperate mother, due to circumstances, could not offer them a future. The South African Medical Research Council (SAMNR) goes as far to claim that twice as many abandoned
Action Society calls on government to empower civil society organisation to assist in addressing the inefficiencies in the DNA testing and investigation processes to accelerate the prosecution of sexual offenders. Since the National Forensic Science Laboratories (NFLS) has ground to a near halt over 125,000 cases, of which 92% are
Action Society acts in the interest of the public through active advocacy for policy change. We work within the community to fight for a reformed justice system, holding government accountable for failing to protect South African citizens.
