Surviving the Exam Season

The Exam Season is upon us – Matrics are due to start their Final Exams this Wednesday, and thousands of Matric students are feeling the pressure as all eyes from their friends, teachers, parents, families and their communities are waiting in anticipation as they...
Landmark decision on children’s rights

Landmark decision on children’s rights

The Constitutional Court of South Africa has ruled that the common law defense of reasonable & moderate parental chastisement of children is unconstitutional.It’s a unanimous judgment and the court is of the view that there are effective ways to discipline...

A National Minimum Wage for South Africa (Final Draft)

The South African landscape in 2016 demonstrates a number of very urgent challenges, as well as systemic problems that we as a country have been unable to rectify. There is an inextricable link between low levels of wages, high unemployment rates, the great number of...

Special Needs Group Housing Policy:

NACOSS provided significant input into the development of this Policy during 2014 and 2015. The aim of this Policy is to enable organisations to access funding for capital expenditure to care for and protect people with special needs in group housing. Such funding is...