Don’t pass the buck – blame parents for teenage pregnancies and drunk teachers, says Motshekga

Name of article: Don’t pass the buck – blame parents for teenage pregnancies and drunk teachers, says Motshekga

Name of publication: Sowetan

Name of writer: Denise Williams

Date: 08 November 2012

Country: South Africa

Theme: Education, young women

Skills: Perspective

Genre: News

Gem classification: Gender blind

Basic Education Minister Angie Motsfeka says pregnancies among schoolgirls and teachers who go to class drunk are not her department’s problem. Speaking in Der Aar in Northern Cape at the national councils of provinces’ “taking parliament to the people” programme, Motshekga said parents could not “pass the buck” back to her department on the thorny issue of rising teenage pregnancies since kids were not having sex in schools.

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