The Department of Social Development in Gauteng (GDSD) has launched a forensic investigation to trace what happened to funds that went missi...

In February this year, there were at least 727 children still waiting for foster care placement in Gauteng. Some of them have been on the wa...

A Worcester mother found herself in the dock on two counts of child abuse on Thursday after she "disciplined" two teenage girls fo...

The fatal shooting of a 45-year-old female social worker has left her family, friends and the townspeople shocked and baffled. In an incid...

The Addo Elephant Park ranger who fatally shot his one-year-old foster child and wounded his wife – who was holding the toddler at the time ...

A lack of professional capacity and despite tireless work by an elderly couple to take her into foster care, 12-year-old Lebogang Mokoka has...

A Soweto woman accused of killing her foster mother appeared disoriented in court yesterday. Nomvula Ramonotsi, 36, was unresponsive durin...

Pretoria - Anna Mahlangu, 64, sobbed loudly as she went down the stairs to the holding cells of the Gauteng High Court, Pretoria, after bein...

Suspects caused damage to the Child Welfare vehicles that were parked at the office in Jellicoe Street this weekend. On Sunday, November 2...

For the past ten years, Bronwyn Moss and her family have been battling to register an orphaned child with the Department of Home Affairs. ...

Johannesburg - Family First NZ, a leading family group in New Zealand, is warning South African families that a smacking ban will do more ha...

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Esikhaleni Regional Court has convicted and sentenced a 50-year-old foster father to life in jail for raping his daughter between August 201...

Dubliner Shana Hillary Blackman had baby put up for adoption against her wishes when he was just three months old More >>  Irish mu...

The Alexandra cluster of Social Development is looking for the father of Siyathemba Makhubalo, born on 7 January 1999; and Caroline Ziphokaz...

A KwaZulu-Natal couple are embroiled in a desperate battle to stop social welfare officials from removing their adopted and foster children ...

Children chained to trees, forced to sleep in old water tanks, not being fed and young girls sexually abused and made pregnant are some of t...

A 56-year-old street trader who was told she was too broke and sickly to raise her only granddaughter has won a three-year court battle. ...

A South African woman embroiled in a custody battle has 30 days to return her young child to his father in the UK - even though it’s been tw...