Weight put on kids is too heavy

When a 14-year-old boy emerges with zama zamas from a mine, many questions come.

- KEKELETSO NAKELI

The obvious and first question being: why is this child not at school? So many elements come to the fore with this conversation, one being the dependence of children to provide, even under the most dangerous of conditions.

The involvement of children in illegal and questionable activities for financial gain is disturbing. Where are the parents? All this while we enter 16 Days of Activism for No Violence Against Women and Children, which is starting to feel more like a chore, than a cause.

Apart from death, how do parents throw their children right into the eye of the storm for financial provision?