Catriona Macleod
latest news & developmentsWhy inclusive education must work
Our system of education is failing those with learning disabilities, writes Catriona Macleod Simphiwe, Thulani and Sipho have never met each other. But they have many things in…
Teenage pregnancy: a problem or not?
‘Children bearing children’; ‘this teenage catastrophe’; ‘our greatest demographic disaster’; ‘the premier social evil of the Third World’ … These are all ways in which teenage…
Culture counts in sex play
In the previous two columns of this series, I examined ignorance, risk-taking, the early onset of menstruation, psychological problems, family and peer influences and coercive…
Pregnancy – your right to choose
Soon after the first democratic elections in South Africa in 1994, the Choice on Termination of Pregnancy (CTOP) Act of 1996, which, for the first time, legalised abortion, was…
Complexities of teenage motherhood
In the April column on teenage pregnancy, we saw how teenage pregnancy is defined as a problem because of the disruption of schooling that potentially accompanies it and the…