The unions started looking at the issue of child care after being alarmed by the rate at which infant deaths are running.
Archive record
Child care centres needed

- Origin date
- January 1989
- Updated
- 27 Aug 2019

South African History Online. (2016, February 22). Child care centres needed. South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/R-0106939
South African History Online (2016) 'Child care centres needed', South African History Online, 22 February. Available at: https://sahistory.org.za/ref/R-0106939 (Accessed: 25 September 2026).
South African History Online, Child care centres needed [website], https://sahistory.org.za/ref/R-0106939, (accessed 25 September 2026).
"Child care centres needed." South African History Online, 22 Feb. 2016, https://sahistory.org.za/ref/R-0106939. Accessed 25 Sept. 2026.
South African History Online. "Child care centres needed." South African History Online. February 22, 2016. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/R-0106939.
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