Social Development Deputy Minister Hendrietta Bogopane-Zulu yesterday warned a beneficiary of a house donated by a church not to have more children and thereby increase poverty.
Marking Child Protection Week, Bogopane-Zulu handed over a five-roomed house donated by Holiness Union Church's pastor Maria Sekwane to Sibongile Ndlovu, 29, and her three children. The four live at Bhuga in the Ehlanzeni district in Mpumalanga.
"Sibongile, this is your home, mostly it's the children's home that you got today. You already have three children, don't get pregnant again because you're unemployed. As the department we're trying to combat poverty, so if you have more children you're piling up poverty, Bogopane-Zulu said.
"Again, most of the time our black women have a tendency whereafter a house is donated we will then see a beard [a man] ruling the house and abusing your children. We don't want to see a man here who'll disrespect or abuse your children.
"So if you happen to have a man, please take him outside or build a shack somewhere and be there with him."
Ndlovu, who lived in a shack for five years, said she used to wake up at night to make sure the children were safe in the rainy season.
"... Nights of suffering are over now. Thank you, Pastor Sekwane," said Ndlovu.
Bogopane-Zulu and pharmaceutical company Cipla SA's CEO Paul Miller also handed over 11 classrooms to the Hlayisani Early Childhood Development Centre. The company donated the facility and named it after Sekwane, its founder.
Miller said the company was happy to be part of "this little miracle".
No more kids, you're poor, says deputy minister
Social Development Deputy Minister Hendrietta Bogopane-Zulu yesterday warned a beneficiary of a house donated by a church not to have more children and thereby increase poverty.
Marking Child Protection Week, Bogopane-Zulu handed over a five-roomed house donated by Holiness Union Church's pastor Maria Sekwane to Sibongile Ndlovu, 29, and her three children. The four live at Bhuga in the Ehlanzeni district in Mpumalanga.
"Sibongile, this is your home, mostly it's the children's home that you got today. You already have three children, don't get pregnant again because you're unemployed. As the department we're trying to combat poverty, so if you have more children you're piling up poverty, Bogopane-Zulu said.
"Again, most of the time our black women have a tendency whereafter a house is donated we will then see a beard [a man] ruling the house and abusing your children. We don't want to see a man here who'll disrespect or abuse your children.
"So if you happen to have a man, please take him outside or build a shack somewhere and be there with him."
Ndlovu, who lived in a shack for five years, said she used to wake up at night to make sure the children were safe in the rainy season.
"... Nights of suffering are over now. Thank you, Pastor Sekwane," said Ndlovu.
Bogopane-Zulu and pharmaceutical company Cipla SA's CEO Paul Miller also handed over 11 classrooms to the Hlayisani Early Childhood Development Centre. The company donated the facility and named it after Sekwane, its founder.
Miller said the company was happy to be part of "this little miracle".
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