{"id":20485,"date":"2022-10-13T11:10:13","date_gmt":"2022-10-13T11:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/the-ugly-cases-of-child-labour"},"modified":"2022-10-13T11:51:23","modified_gmt":"2022-10-13T11:51:23","slug":"the-ugly-cases-of-child-labour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/the-ugly-cases-of-child-labour","title":{"rendered":"The ugly cases of child labour"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Lesotho. <\/strong><\/span>THE case of a 15-year-old boy who was murdered by cattle raiders in Mokhotlong where he was a herdboy last month has reopened debate about child labour in a country where children as young as eight years old often abandon school to look after livestock.<\/p>\n

His lifeless body was found dumped in a ditch in Tlaeeng, not far from his cattle post. The boy had been employed as a shepherd in what the police called another crime against children.<\/p>\n

Deprived of education and the joys of childhood, the boy has become the face of the country\u2019s many victims of child labour, a practice rampant in Lesotho for decades.<\/p>\n

Many children in mountainous areas drop out of school at primary level to herd animals either for their families or for pay. Some say their parents impose the decision on them, while others seek work of their own accord due to economic reasons.<\/p>\n

\u201cCulturally, in Lesotho, herding takes the first priority and as such prohibits Basotho males\u2019 access to and retention in education,\u201d noted academic, Selloane Pitikoe.<\/p>\n

In her doctoral thesis titled Male Herders in Lesotho: Life History, Identities and Educational Ambitions in Lesotho, Pitikoe stated that \u201cthe boy in the family becomes the first resort to support the family\u2019s financial needs\u201d when the family becomes economically vulnerable.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the end, he will have to withdraw from his educational activities to look for employment,\u201d noted Pitikoe.<\/p>\n

Another academic, Ramaele Moshoeshoe found that between 10 and 14 percent of boys of school going age are herders and 18 percent of these are not employed by their own families.<\/p>\n

\u201cHerding is the most common form of child labour in Lesotho but it is also the most dangerous,\u201d stated Moshoeshoe in his doctoral thesis on education.<\/p>\n

Lesotho\u2019s Labour Code prohibits the employment of children, while the Child Welfare and Protection Act emphasizes the need for children to grow up in a family set up.<\/p>\n

\u201cA child (a person under 18) has a right to live with their parents and grow up in a caring and peaceful environment,\u201d reads provisions of the Child Welfare and Protection Act.<\/p>\n

It states that a child shall not be subjected to any . . . practices that are likely to negatively affect the child\u2019s life, health, wealth, dignity or physical, emotional, psychological, mental and intellectual development.<\/p>\n

It mandates the government to provide \u201cspecial protection for a child deprived of family environment\u201d. The law requires parents to provide for their children who are below 18 years. The Education Act says education is free and compulsory for children below 13 years.<\/p>\n

The same law further shows that a child has a right to access education, adequate diet, clothing, shelter, medical attention, social services, protection from exploitative labour or any other service required for the child\u2019s development.<\/p>\n

But, as the 15-year-old boy\u2019s case shows, these provisions largely remain on paper. In practice, eradicating child labour, particularly as entrenched as livestock herding, could be a bigger battle. The boy was looking after 150 sheep and goats, about 70 of which were stolen when he was murdered.<\/p>\n

The Director of the Department of Prevention and Combating of Animal Theft in Mokhtlong district, Police Senior Inspector Rakhosi Ts\u030calong, told thepost that the local police are working on the case.<\/p>\n

\u201cInvestigations have progressed and we hope the suspects of theft and the murder of the shepherd will be found soon,\u201d said Senior Inspector Ts\u030calong.<\/p>\n

Senior Inspector Haleeo Leluma of the Mokhotlong police has condemned people who hire children to herd their livestock. \u201cThis is a lesson for the public to report where they know about children being hired so that the police can take legal action,\u201d S\/Insp Leluma said.<\/p>\n

S\/Insp Leluma said police will \u201censure that the community stops this crime of exposing minors to dangers such as this\u201d. \u201cStock theft has become so common recently because the thieves have realised that the animals are under the watch of young children in cattle posts,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

One of the boys, whom this paper shall call Pitso to protect his identity, said he started working as a herdboy when he was just eight-years-old while he was still a primary school pupil.<\/p>\n

Pitso, who is a herdboy in one of Thaba-Tseka\u2019s rangelands, said he had to drop out of school at 11-years to go into herding full-time in 2020. He said his father told him to stop going to school and focus fully on livestock.<\/p>\n

\u201cI did but I was devastated because I loved school and I even envisioned myself as a teacher in future,\u201d Pitso said.<\/p>\n

He talked about the dire conditions that young herdboys are forced to endure. \u201cLife at the cattle post is very difficult. I did everything by myself. I neither swept nor did laundry because there was no soap.<\/p>\n

I only left home with four blankets, a bag of maize flour and salt,\u201d he said. \u201cI ate papa (corn porridge) only or with salt except when one of the animals in the flock was breastfeeding.<\/p>\n

It is something that I got used to. \u201d Another herdboy from Thaba-Tseka, 14-year-old Sello, dropped out of school in Grade Six because \u201cthe beating was too much and sometimes I got beaten for the things I didn\u2019t do\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cI woke up every day pretending to go to school only to hide myself,\u201d he said, adding that went on for a week until his seven-year-old brother informed their parents that he had bunked school.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy parents beat me up as well,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI ran to my grandmother\u2019s place and stayed with her and that\u2019s when I started herding her flock until I got employed two months ago.<\/p>\n

\u201d He gets paid M500 monthly. He said he gives his mother M300 of the money, leaving him with M200 to spend on crispy potato chips and sweets \u2013 because he is just a child.<\/p>\n

Sello looks after 29 animals. \u201cIt is my second month staying there alone and I don\u2019t know when I will go back home,\u201d he said, adding that his mother is in favour of him continuing to be a herdboy.<\/p>\n

These cases are a few of many victims of child labour. A teacher at \u2019Makhotso Primary in Thaba-Tseka, Ts\u030coloane Phats\u030coane, said enrolment is low \u201cnot because the village school is small but because we lose some students to cattle herding\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust this year, we had 55 students but the number has declined to 45. We tried to engage with their parents and caregivers and our efforts were in vain as history keeps repeating itself,\u201d Phats\u030coane said.<\/p>\n

\u2019Maletele Suhlane, the Setala Primary School principal in Thaba-Tseka, shared similar sentiments, adding that they have reported some cases to the police but \u201cit was business as usual as they never acted\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey will say they will come but they never did until we stopped reporting,\u201d Suhlane said. She says nine to 11-year-olds drop out of school to do cattle herding.<\/p>\n

She said the school had 110 children but the number has dropped to 96, with some as young as nine-years old leaving to become herdboys. She said the children\u2019s parents and guardians claim to be broke so they encourage the practice.<\/p>\n

\u201cQuarterly, a child is expected to pay M36 to pay the school security guard and cover costs for sports.<\/p>\n

Their parents or guardians say that is too much and their children would rather herd animals,\u201d she said. \u201cIt pains us because all we want is to teach the children for them to reach their full potential.
\nThe Area Chief of Sekoainyaneng in Thaba-Tseka, Chief Mahlomola Moreki, said child labour is rampant as children\u2019s rights to free primary education continues to be violated.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe reported these cases all the time but nothing has been done to date and this has led to an unpleasant environment,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Pitikoe, the author of the doctoral thesis titled \u201cMale Herders in Lesotho: Life History, Identities and Educational Ambitions in Lesotho,\u201d observed that Basotho boys, more than girls, are often forced to abandon school in search of employment as herders or in the dangerous mines of South Africa.<\/p>\n

In fulfillment of the herding role, she said, the boys are compelled to either look after animals belonging to their own families or are employed by wealthy livestock owners in exchange for money that they use to help their needy families.<\/p>\n

Khanya Consultancy Counsellor, Mahlape Moremoholo, said education plays a vital role in a child\u2019s development. \u201cIt develops a child in four dimensions; physical, psychological, spiritual and environmental or social,\u201d Moremoholo said.<\/p>\n

She said children staying in cattle posts fail to improve all the four dimensions. A UNESCO report says almost one in every three Basotho children aged between five and 14 years are forced by poverty to work for a living.<\/p>\n

The 2014 report, the latest to be published, states that another 25.3 percent of children in that age bracket are combining work and school in a bid to make ends meet.<\/p>\n

It notes that lack of resources hampered the government\u2019s ability to fund social and economic programmes for such children. Labour Inspector, Mpho Molise, defined child labour as any work that is done by children who are below the official minimum age of 15 years.<\/p>\n

It is a criminal offence to give a child any work that interferes with their schooling by depriving them of the opportunity to attend school, obliging them to leave school prematurely or requiring them to attempt to combine school attendance with excessively long hours and heavy work, Molise said.<\/p>\n

\u201cChildren are weak and have limited bargaining power. They are easily manipulated and exploited.<\/p>\n

The problem is compounded by weak enforcement of the relevant laws and regulations protecting children from hazardous work and exploitation,\u201d Molise said.<\/p>\n

She said labour laws are mainly applied to the formal sectors, but not in unregulated informal sectors that are major employers of children. \u201cHowever, the ministry is in the process of reviewing the Labour Code Order 1992 so as to cover inspections in informal sectors,\u201d said Molise.<\/p>\n

Molise said the ministry has conducted Rapid Assessment on the Worst Forms of Child Labour (pending report from the consultant) that would be used to inform the development of child labour policies and the law. However, in the meantime, thousands of young boys remain in danger of meeting the same fate as the 15-year-old dead Mokhotlong boy.<\/p>\n

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