In collaboration with the Nelson Mandela Children's Fund, we held the Nelson Mandela Children's Parliament in the Mpumalanga legislature. This became a venue for a robust and exciting engagement between South Africa's children and government leaders. It was a lesson in democratic participation for our children and an eye-opener for the political leadership about the challenges that face our children, which they articulated very well. This year, the Nelson Mandela Children's Parliament will be held in the Eastern Cape province, in partnership with the Eastern Cape provincial legislature. We must continue to promote the rights of children, in keeping with the words of Nelson Mandela when he said that -there is no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way it treats its children|.