Youth commit to no sex before marriage
Thursday, March 15, 2007
She got inspiration from her mother, Onkemetse Kebapetse, who noticed many pregnancies at the time. Twinkle and some of her peers have moved a step further and joined a Vision Anti-AIDS Club in Sowa Town. The club comprises young people who have pledged to abstain from sex before marriage.
The club has 23 active members, 10 males and 13 females. Their ages range from 12 to 18. However, there are older non-active members who are now outside the country pursuing further studies.
Our weekly edition carries painful articles of people being murdered. Whilst some are classified as Gender Based Violence (GBV), there are still a large percentage of murder cases, which often happen at drinking spots, after people are heavily intoxicated. We have in the past carried articles where an individual was murdered because they refused to give someone a cigarette, and sadly this is where we are at now!In this very edition, there is an...