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TOUGH GOING: Kelebogile Molefe with her children and brother on the Rietvlei farm. PHOTOS: ANDREW MAHLABA

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She has had to look after her four children and her younger brother since her parents died in 2000.

She is unemployed, and because she has to look after the children, she does not even have an ID.

Her children also do not have birth certificates.

Molefe says she only applied for the documents last month. They survive on the little money her boyfriend gives her. Besides that, Good Samaritans and churches sometimes give them food and money.

Molefe left school in Grade 9 at the age of 14 after her mother lost her job as a domestic worker on a nearby farm.

"After my mother lost her job, I dropped out because there was no money for the bus fare ," she says.

Molefe lives in a one-room house that her parents lived in when they worked for the previous farm owner.

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Wed May 22 08:46:52 SAST 2013 ::

Sep 19, 2012

Chichi7

It does not take a genius to realise that life will be hard with 4 kids by the age of 24 plus you are unemployed. The least you need woman is d*ck!! Jeez!!
Free clinics with free condoms and contraceptives, what more do you want?
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Sep 19, 2012

SiesMaan

I really don’t understand why we have to feel soooooo sorry for this woman.? Why would she have 4 kids at 24?
Family planning is free at our Government clinics.
She saw her mother was suffering providing for her then she goes and gets 4 kids?
I only feel sorry for the little ones because they are innocent in all of this.

She must just get a job.

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Sep 19, 2012

Ompas

There is no use of hammering the poor girl about what she should have done,the fact is that its too late for tat and the kids are there,she needs to look out for them,the question is what plan will benefit her and the kids forward!
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Sep 19, 2012

vendanzhelele

nw this is bad..those kids are like 3plets..i guese she's having a kid every year. so the least a man can do is to give so many kids that he also cnt suport
this is just shameful hope ur home affairs papers get aproved though
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Sep 19, 2012

Sugaar

@SiesMaan
Children are blessings from God ,
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Sep 19, 2012

MorenaWaPolelo

So she has four kids of her own, I hate being judgemental but after having the first child one knows not to have or to have another one unless if you are raped. But she keeps on breeding ofsprings like a rouch now look what mess she is in, this is unacceptable plaasjapie or not there are TV's and radios she must have heard about birth control some how!!!!! God bless the boyfriend for helping out though as for me I would never take care of a kid that is not mine!!!!
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Sep 19, 2012

ALLINONE

Yoh ay shame usisi nezingane ezincane zonke usenkingeni bandla b4 helping her she must have her tubes tired she has more than she can handle. Even if she gets a job who will look after 5kids maybe she should just move to one of those safe houses until she is on her feet. Cha ngiyamuzwela shame 5 kids n unemployed fuze ngabe uyafa is-stress bandla.
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Sep 19, 2012

Nys1

She must be arrested , 4 kids at 24 ...Damn.
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Sep 19, 2012

nalita

IT DOESN’T MEAN WHEN YOUR PARENTS DIES , YOU SHOULD OPEN YOUR LEGS FOR MONEY. IN SA THERE IS LOTS AND LOTS YOU CAN DO TO GET MONEY APART FROM SEX. SHE BROUGHT THIS TO HER SELF. AT HER AGE WITH 4 KIDS. SHE THINKS SEX AND KIDS ARE THE SOLUTION? SIES
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Sep 19, 2012

MAWARAWARA

@MorenaWaPolelo
They survive on the little money her boyfriend gives her.
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you must get ama-Gogolos, or you just read the heads line, Sdonyampumphu huwe!
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