South Africa’s Child Protection Register is supposed to ensure children are kept safe from sexual predators. ‘Carte Blanche’ investigates why this isn’t exactly the case.
It seems as if there isn’t a day that goes by where we don’t read about some or other sex act committed against a child in this country. But 16 months after its inception, only one person has been deemed unsuitable to work with children and been named on the national Child Protection Register.