South African wanting to adopt...

Section 16 of the Children's Act deals with domestic adoptions, and Section 17 deals with intercountry adoptions - and yes, it was fully promulgated on April 1st. K&S Adoptions out of Jo'berg used to work with South African citizens who wanted to adopt children from Eastern Europe, but no longer does. It may be worthwhile to contact them and ask why. Now that SA is fully a Hague nation, citizens can't work with another country's agencies. So contacting US agencies for example won't be of much use. Now that SA is fully Hague accredited, of course one of the main ideas of the Hague is to place children domestically whenever possible. So I'm guessing the government (only a guess here) may not allow intercountry adoptions (or at least make them very, very difficult)anymore, seeing as SA itself is home to over 2 million orphans.