Women’s Month shame as thousands of mothers left without maintenance payments
Advocacy group Child Maintenance Difficulties in South Africa says beneficiaries across the country are still waiting for garnishee payments that never arrived last month, even as the department of justice and constitutional development promotes its annual Access to Justice Week.
The maintenance system collapse wasn’t new, with concerns about the high numbers of child maintenance applications that remain incomplete, being highlighted as early as 2024 after data provided by the department of justice indicated over 170 000 incomplete child maintenance applications in February 2024.
As South Africa marks Women’s Month, thousands of single mothers are left stranded without child maintenance payments, exposing flaws in the justice system meant to protect them.
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