Marang Students Warned Against Sex

Maipelo Senabjwe urged Marang JSS students to abstain PIC: MORERI SEJAKGOMO
Maipelo Senabjwe urged Marang JSS students to abstain PIC: MORERI SEJAKGOMO

Marang Junior Secondary School Form 2 students have been warned to stay away from sexual intercourse. Giving a motivational talk against teenage pregnancy on Thursday evening, motivational speaker Maipelo Senabjwe who had a child in her teens told the girls that being a teenage mother is tough.

“My pregnancy was not easy. I didn’t know I was pregnant till I finished my Form 5. When you fall pregnant, your youth, your body will not fully develop. Your dignity is also dragged through the mud. It is also not easy to concentrate at school when you are pregnant that is why I failed my Form 5 because I could not concentrate at school,” she said.

Senabjwe added that after realising that she was pregnant, she could not do things her peers did.

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