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‘Small things, great love’: The Durban safe house where babies wait for a home | SA News

Behind every abandoned baby is a mother in crisis – overwhelmed and desperate, a situation often exacerbated by poverty.

South Africa recorded 595 cases of child abandonment in 2024, recently fired Minister of Social Development Sisisi Tolashe announced at the launch of Child Protection Month in May 2025. However, the actual annual figures for the past several years is believed to be much higher since many babies who are abandoned are not reported and thus not recorded in the National Child Protection Register, the department admitted in response to questions before the National Assembly in 2025.

Child abandonment is a criminal offence under South Africa’s Children’s Act. There are,…

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