ACESS IN THE MEDIA

2008

• Victory for Poor and Vulnerable Children
• School Fees letter addendum
• Press Statement supporting cabinet probe to extend CSG to 18.
• Press Statement calling for the extension CSG to 18 to assist child labourers.
• fees letter.
• "Children go hungry after Ministers bungle on grants", Thursday Cape Times 20 March
• The paper chase case, March
• ACESS summary 26 Feb 2008 final press release
• 14 February 2008 Child social Security activists ‘over the moon.’
• ACESS press release 8 Feb 08 State of the Nation
• ACESS response to sunday times article regarding teenage pregnancy

2007

• Press Statement August 9th 2007 Women's Day
• Press Statement June 16th 2007 Youth Day

2005

• World Aids Day - 1 December 2005
• Public hearings to be held on law aimed at addressing the cost of schooling for South Africa’s poorest children, 26 August 2005(with CALS)
• Can we really celebrate our freedom when so many of our people are enslaved by poverty?, 26 April 2005
• Response to Sunday Times: “Probe into whether teen moms are milking state”,17 April 2005
• The national budget as an “expression of our social intent” fails the poor children of South Africa, February 2005
• Comment on the Budget Speech of the Minister of Finance 2005
• ACESS pre-budget alert, February 2005
• Reply to the President’s State of the Nation Address, February 2005

2004

• Youth Day - 16 June 2004
• ‘Government Reneges on Commitment to ease Children’s access to Grants’, 11 May 2004
• Congratulations letter to Minister, 7 May 2004
• Response to North West MG:  Children are the losers in age confusion, 23 April 2004
• ‘No ID Book, No money’, Mail&Guardian, 16 April 2004
• A piece of Paper Stands in the Way of Children Accessing Grants
• Documents continue to dominate women’s lives, 9 August 2004
• Children’s Sector’s Response To the President’s State of the Nation Address,
  6 February 2004
• ANC Election Manifesto Marginalises over 3 Million Children, 15 January 2004
• ACESS calls for a comprehensive social protection system which prioritizes children on International Rural Women’s Day (15 October), World Food Day (16 October), and International Day for the Eradication of Poverty (17 October), Child Support Week (15-21 October), Social Development Month, 14 October 2004
• ACESS’s reply to the Minister of Finance’s Medium Term Budget Policy Statement,
  27 October 2004
• Child Protection Week – May 2004
• Trevor Manual Offers No Solace To Those Trapped In The Second Economy, February 2004
• ACESS's Response From The Second Economy To The Cape Times’ Second Opinion,
  29 October 2004
• Youth Day - June 2004

2003

• ‘How a child grant changed my babies life’, Sunday Times,5 March 2003
• Budget Day Press Release - 26 Feb 2003:
• ACESS press release
• TAC response
• Fairshare response
• Children’s sector’s response to the president’s statement on Child Support Grant - 14 Feb 2003:
• ACESS press release
• Press alert

2002

• World AIDS Day, 1 Dec 2002
• ACESS Hands Over Petition of Thousands of Signatures to the ANC Conference,
  17 December 2002
• International Human Rights Day 2002, 9 December 2002
• World Food Day – 16th October
• International Day for the Eradication of Poverty UN – 17th October
• Child Rights Alliance To Lobby ANC Conference on Social Assistance, December 2002
• International Children’s Day - 2 Nov 2002

PRESS CLIPPINGS

• ACESS delegation handover thousands signatures to minister February 2006

• Rights groups call for grants for to HIV/Aids children December 2005
• Rise in AIDS orphans strains grants, 25 November 2005
• Quest get food to SA's poorest dogged by a vast array of problems, 5 May 2005
• Exploding the myth social security breeds dependancy, 24 April 2005
• Parents oppose proposed rule, 28 February 2005
• Just how bold will Mbeki be? 11 February 2005

• Parents may be able to pay school fees in kind,19 February 2004