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New plan to snare child maintenance defaulters

CHILD maintenance defaulters will soon have nowhere to hide. The Department of Justice and Correctional Services will soon start using registered cell phone and telephone numbers, company registrations, credit profiles, court judgments, property purchases, sales and transfers as well as vehicle regulations to trace child maintenance defaulters.

The government believes this will ease dependency on social grants. But the women who have been battling with maintenance arrears say they have very little faith in

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