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Over the past few years, the South African public health system has steadily been collapsing. Buildings are falling to pieces, there are not enough medical personnel to treat the numbers of patients who need care, and people are dying.

The Aids Healthcare Foundation (AHF) and the Ntethelelo Foundation are collaborating to uplift and empower adolescent girls and young women in Setswetla in Alexandra, just outside Sandton.

This year marks the 25th anniversary of South Africa’s freedom, and protecting and promoting human rights is as vital now as it was before 1994.

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) is tasked with promoting and encouraging respect for human rights for all without distinction as to race, sex, language, or religion, as stipulated in the United Nations’s 1945 Charter, the intergovernmental organisation’s the foundational treaty.

In the aftermath of the Sharpeville Massacre in 1960, then African National Congress deputy president Oliver Reginald Tambo embarked on a “mission in exile” to garner international support for the South African liberation movement.

Daily, we at Refugee Social Services in Durban come face-to-face with the particular challenges and dangers inherent in a refugee’s journey to the country of refuge (in this case South Africa).