MEC Khoza: Young people say parents are failing them
KZN Social Development MEC Nonhlanhla Khoza says her department has become increasingly overwhelmed by calls from young people asking to be saved from their parents.
Khoza was at the Youth Development Centre in Wentworth in southern Durban on Tuesday to close off Child Protection Month.
She says she wanted to give feedback on concerns raised by young people during a recent Youth Parliament sitting.
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The MEC says they have come to understand from many victim children that their parents and other family members are often the first to let them down.
"They are saying parents in rural areas just rake issues to Induna and iNkhosi. You have those issues whereby a parent has been there with Induna and - Induna and the iNkhosa decide that families should talk.
"They should talk about what? They should talk about the rape of a child which happened within the family and they should talk about the rape of a child which happened within the community. It cannot be such."
