Global Conference on the Elimination of Child Labour taking place at the Durban International Convention Centre in Durban, which aims to share good practices and to push for accelerated action towards the elimination of child labour as well as to assess progress made towards achieving Sustainable Development Goals regarding child labour.
However, Africa with its unique customs of raising children might run the risk of having its children classified as child labourers by definitions that may not be wary of such traditions. In such instances, Vera Kamtukule, Minister of Labour, Republic of Malawi and Chair of the SADC Employment and Labour Sector, representing SADC, agrees that Africa might need to rethink the way it raises its children.
“We may need to rethink the way we are raising children. What I am saying is that there has got to be a difference.
Vera Kamtukule, Minister of Labour from the Republic of Malawi and Chair of the SADC Employment and Labour Sector, says Africa may need to rethink the way they have traditionally raised children.
How so as the child with parents who are unable to get the job cos they are over thirty five years of age? That why the children took responsibility to put bread on the table.