Durban - A 12-year-old from Ndwedwe is among the 9 135 understudies reported pregnant in KwaZulu-Natal schools in the previous year.
The understudy was impregnated by a 33-year-old man, who professedly paid a goat to her family as installment for "harms".
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"The family has acknowledged the goat. They were alright with that and the understudy was not at school and was remaining with the man," Education MEC, Mthandeni Ndlungwane, told the governing body.
Ndlungwane, who affirmed a case had been opened and the man captured, made the startling divulgence when the division informed the instruction portfolio advisory group on a program called My Life, My Future.
It is gone for demoralizing students from dropping out of school and handling social ills, for example, teenager pregnancies and substance mishandle.
The program likewise tries to expand learning on HIV counteractive action.
A report tabled to the advisory group demonstrated that Ugu, Umkhanyakude and uMlazi areas had the most noticeably bad understudy pregnancy insights in the region, with 1 200, 1 089 and 1 018 individually.
Umgungundlovu region had the least, 275, trailed by Sisonke and Ilembe, with 510 and 538.
The report appeared there had been a lessening in student pregnancies of 1 078 in the area, from 10 213 in 2014 to a year ago's 9 135.
In any case it noticed that the figures depended on exposures by the students.
"There is a plausibility numerous cases are not reported."
Measurements South Africa discoveries appear to emphatically bolster this. Since 2011 it has recorded an expansion in adolescent pregnancy in South Africa.
"The predominance noted in KZN is a piece of a national pattern," the answer to the advisory group said.
The StatsSA review discovered 68 000 pregnancy cases in the nation in 2011, 81 000 in 2012 and 99 000 in 2013.
"When you take a gander at these figures, they are unnerving," Ndlungwane said.
He said it was of most extreme significance students were shielded from social ills and his specialty was focused on doing that.
"In the event that we are not mediating and managing these issues, we are to lose the best of the learners," he said.
Ndlungwane said his specialization wanted to catch up on student pregnancy cases to build up who was included.
ANC MPL, Jomo Sibiya, said "it has turned into a culture for young ladies to get pregnant" and there were no results. He said educators now and again got off scott free subsequent to impregnating understudies.
ANC MPL and boss whip, Nontembeko Boyce, said the division ought to present an enforceable program went for helping understudies avoid social ills.
Board of trustees director, Linda Hlongwa, said the My Life, My Future program ought to proceed at schools in light of the expanding figures.
The understudy was impregnated by a 33-year-old man, who professedly paid a goat to her family as installment for "harms".
Document picture:: Freeimages.com. Credit: FREEIMAGES
"The family has acknowledged the goat. They were alright with that and the understudy was not at school and was remaining with the man," Education MEC, Mthandeni Ndlungwane, told the governing body.
Ndlungwane, who affirmed a case had been opened and the man captured, made the startling divulgence when the division informed the instruction portfolio advisory group on a program called My Life, My Future.
It is gone for demoralizing students from dropping out of school and handling social ills, for example, teenager pregnancies and substance mishandle.
The program likewise tries to expand learning on HIV counteractive action.
A report tabled to the advisory group demonstrated that Ugu, Umkhanyakude and uMlazi areas had the most noticeably bad understudy pregnancy insights in the region, with 1 200, 1 089 and 1 018 individually.
Umgungundlovu region had the least, 275, trailed by Sisonke and Ilembe, with 510 and 538.
The report appeared there had been a lessening in student pregnancies of 1 078 in the area, from 10 213 in 2014 to a year ago's 9 135.
In any case it noticed that the figures depended on exposures by the students.
"There is a plausibility numerous cases are not reported."
Measurements South Africa discoveries appear to emphatically bolster this. Since 2011 it has recorded an expansion in adolescent pregnancy in South Africa.
"The predominance noted in KZN is a piece of a national pattern," the answer to the advisory group said.
The StatsSA review discovered 68 000 pregnancy cases in the nation in 2011, 81 000 in 2012 and 99 000 in 2013.
"When you take a gander at these figures, they are unnerving," Ndlungwane said.
He said it was of most extreme significance students were shielded from social ills and his specialty was focused on doing that.
"In the event that we are not mediating and managing these issues, we are to lose the best of the learners," he said.
Ndlungwane said his specialization wanted to catch up on student pregnancy cases to build up who was included.
ANC MPL, Jomo Sibiya, said "it has turned into a culture for young ladies to get pregnant" and there were no results. He said educators now and again got off scott free subsequent to impregnating understudies.
ANC MPL and boss whip, Nontembeko Boyce, said the division ought to present an enforceable program went for helping understudies avoid social ills.
Board of trustees director, Linda Hlongwa, said the My Life, My Future program ought to proceed at schools in light of the expanding figures.
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