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We Need More Options for Mothers in Crisis — Not Fewer Written By: Joanne Teunissen When the Department of Social Development announced plans to criminalise the use of baby saver boxes, it reignited a deeply emotional and contentious debate about infant abandonment in South Africa. It’s an issue rooted in Read more

We must learn to see one another Written by Jo Teunissen I recently met a young mother and her one-month-old baby living rough on the streets of Durban North. She was completely exposed: vulnerable to violence, rain, hunger and fear. Survival was her daily battle. She wasn’t a headline. She Read more