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Veronicca Molefe

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The latest adolescent pregnancy data from Statistics South Africa shows that 90 037 girls aged 10 to 19 years gave birth from March 2021 to April 2022, across all provinces.
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It has been estimated that in the 2022-23 financial year, 150 000 girls aged 10 to 19 had fallen pregnant – which means that at least 150 000 girls had unprotected sex

  • Veronicca Molefe
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