Child Murders: SA’s preventable tragedy. (Cape Argus, 5 September 2017, and Daily Maverick, 20 September 2017 [reprint])
Ruling promotes 'positive' parental discipline (Cape Argus, 23 October 2017)
Parents’ fears over the abolition of corporal punishment are unfounded. (Sunday Times, 29 October 2017)
Reducing physical punishment in the home is key to reducing violence. (Daily Maverick, 6 November 2017)
Hunger is still killing South Africa’s children. (Mail & Guardian, 1 December 2017)
Creating pathways to end violence against women and children. (City Press, 10 December 2017)
Ruling against spanking children widely hailed (Saturday Star, 21 October 2017)
Urgent project launched after 20-plus murders in WC this year (Herald Live, 27 June 2017)
New project to save kids after over 20 killed in Western Cape this year (Times Live, 27 June 2017)
Government admits to failing in their fight against child exploitation (SABC, 21 June 2017)
Schools fall short on screening teachers (Talk of the Town,15 June 2017)
‘Violence against children in South Africa - a national disaster’ (News24, 14 June 2017)
‘Breaking the intergenerational cycle of violence can help address crime against women and children’, experts (The Citizen, 9 June 2017)
What drives a parent to hit a child? (Independent Online, 31 May 2017)
#ChildProtectionWeek: Child abuse in SA a cause for alarm (Independent Online, 30 May 2017)
Shanaaz Mathews speaks about Child Protection Week to SABC's Morning Live, 28 May 2017
Child violence at tipping point (Independent Online, 25 May 2017)
SA's child violence time bomb (Independent Online, 25 May 2017)
Interview with Shanaaz Mathews, SABC News, 25 May 2017
Failed by parents, failed by the state (Sowetan Live, 24 May 2017)
We should all be in the dock with Mortimer Saunders (IOL, 22 May 2017)
Dialogue aims to bring child killings to an end (Weekend Argus, 20 May 2017)
Religion in state schools under the spotlight (The Rep, 16 May 2017)
Festering Indifference: Foster care grant mess has echoes of Sassa crisis (Daily Maverick, 21 March 2017)
There's Another 6-year-old Storm Over Bathabile Dlamini's Head Over Foster Care Grants (Huffington Post, 8 March 2017)
‘Developers have received favourable treatment from DA’ (Daily Maverick, 21 February 2017)