The causes, nature and impact of child work and labour in South Africa: a study of three purposively selected sites: final report

Abstract

This is the final report for the research project on child work and labour in agriculture commissioned by the Towards the Elimination of Child Labour Programme in South Africa (TECL) in May 2006. It was conducted by a team of researchers led by the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC), and is organised as follows. Section 1, the introduction explains the definition of child work and labour used in the study provides an overview of the legal and policy framework governing child work and labour in South Africa and presents the key findings from existing evidence base on child work and labour in agriculture in South Africa. Section 2 presents the research mandate, design and method of the study. Section 3 describes the implementation of the research project in practice. Section 4 presents the main findings of the study. Section 5 presents the recommendations that flow from the study.