Alarming teen pregnancies ‘show we are failing our children’

Girls as young as 10 among 4,000 youngsters giving birth since start of year

01 August 2024 - 06:23

By SIKHO NTSHOBANE and LUKE CHARTER

The Eastern Cape continues to battle a high prevalence of teenage pregnancies with more than 4,000 girls aged between 10 and 19 giving birth since the start of the year.

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