In the news: Child Gauge 2025
Listen to, watch or read interviews and analysis related to the South African Child Gauge 2025. This 18th issue of the South African Child Gauge focuses attention on the intersections of violence against women and children and how early exposure to violence can lead to an intergenerational cycle of violence that has enormous human, social and economic costs.
- Violence against women and children is deeply connected. Three ways to break the patterns - opinion editorial in The Conversation, 21 November
- Empowering communities – strategies to break the cycle of violence against women and children - opinion editorial in Daily Maverick, 16 November 2025
- UCT, partners urge united action to break cycles of violence - UCT News, 14 November 2025
- Beyond punishment: Systematic solutions to end school violence - opinion editorial in News24, 13 November
- G20 leaders must end violence to boost prosperity - opinion editorial in Sunday Times, 9 November 2025
- Violence figures are higher than national study shows - Eye Witness News, 9 November 2025
- Child support grant has saved millions of children, but there is still a way to go - GroundUp and The Outlier, 7 November
- SA’s children are not safe, a new report demands change - MoneyWeb, 6 November 2025
- SA Child Gauge 2025 spotlights intersection of violence against women and children - Daily Maverick, 5 November 2025
- Unpacking the findings of the SA Child Gauge 2025 - Cape Talk, 5 November 2025
- The cycle of violence against women and children - Cape Talk, 5 November 2025
- The price of childhood in SA: 14m kids live below the poverty line - News 24, 5 November 2025
- Call to implement policies to curb violence - Newzroom Afrika, 5 November 2025
- The findings of SA Child Gauge 2025 - SAfm, 5 November 2025
- UCT report calls for urgent action to break cycle of violence against women and children - News24, 4 November 2025
About Child Gauge
The South African Child Gauge is an annual publication of the Children’s Institute, University of Cape Town. It aims to report on and monitor the situation of children in South Africa, in particular the realisation of their rights. The publication focuses on a different theme each year.