‘Pregnant’ teenage girl commits suicide – Swazi Observer

Name of Article: ‘Pregnant’ teenage girl commits suicide

Name of journalist: Bodwa Mbingo

Name of publication: Swazi Observer

Date: 3 July 2012

Country: Swaziland

Theme: Children

Skills: Sources

Genre: News

GEM classification: Subtle stereotype

Description: A girl doing Form Two at Siphocosini High School took her young life by swallowing weevil tablets. This was after allegedly discovering that she had been impregnanted by a fellow schoolmate.   The teenager was laid to rest at her parental home at Nkhube, which is a few kilometres from her school, on Sunday morning.

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