Early and unintended pregnancies remain a critical challenge in South Africa, significantly impacting the health, education and socioeconomic prospects of girls

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State health facilities and the school curriculum have failed the youth, forcing young mothers into unsupported single parenthood

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Pregnancy in South Africa is getting safer, but still not safe enough. Here’s what the health department says they’re doing about it.

This province reported skyrocketing rates of teen pregnancy but behind the figures lies a story about sex, knowledge and data.

We need to take measures that will address gender violence, inequality and patriarchy

‘Years of incompetent government in the service of irresponsible oligarchs has left the country in ruins,’ writes Mathew Blatchford

This country’s president just told public schools to kick out teen mothers, tens of thousands of whom have already lost out on education.

Health services are available but the attitudes of medical staff deter young people

‘Various proposals were also discussed to ensure that men also carried the consequences of unintended pregnancies.’

Her friend still bears the stigma of a schoolgirl affair with a sugar daddy. Pontsho Pilane asks: Why the double standards?

Young people have struggled to access nonjudgmental reproductive healthcare, but the Naguru Teenage Information and Health Centre is changing that.

Gender imbalances in intimate relationships make it difficult for women to decide when, if at all, to have children.

Gender activists have welcomed talks between two departments about ways to reduce teenage pregnancies, but no decision has yet been taken.

His comments stigmatise teenage mothers and suggest the government can interfere with parents’ rights to raise their children, which it cannot.

But few will to listen to researchers who refute society’s accepted notion that teenage pregnancy is damaging to the child, mother and society.

The president has repeated his belief that teenage mothers should be separated from their babies and sent to a "faraway" place to finish school.

Pupils are sometimes pressured by peers to not use protection when sexually active, or even pressurise others to fall pregnant, writes one pupil.

Tlaleng Ketumile lives in the town of Kuruman, home to dusty furniture stores, cellphone shop-containers, tired restaurants and garish newer ones.