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Yesterday, departmental spokeswoman Phumzile Simelela said the boys were still being cared for in a Mitchells Plain safe house and would remain there while their "home circumstances" were being investigated by social workers from the department's KwaZulu-Natal office. "This is to...

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Published inMercury (Hobart, Tas.)
Main Author Joseph, Natasha
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Durban Independent Online (South Africa) 16.04.2009
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Simelela, Phumzile
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Summary:Yesterday, departmental spokeswoman Phumzile Simelela said the boys were still being cared for in a Mitchells Plain safe house and would remain there while their "home circumstances" were being investigated by social workers from the department's KwaZulu-Natal office. "This is to establish why and how their parents let the children go in the first |instance," Simelela said. She said funding had been "secured" from the Western Cape department's budget to pay for the boys' flights back to Durban, but was unable to say when the Durban social workers' investigations would be complete.