Motshekga was responding to a parliamentary question by DA MP Sonja Boshoff about the school pregnancy statistics in the country.
According to The Sowetan, Motshekga revealed that there were 20,116 school girls who fell pregnant in the past year. Of these, about 400 were primary school girls.
Eastern Cape had the second highest number of teen pregnancies at 3,898 followed by Mpumalanga with 3,196. The lowest rates were North West at 278 and Free State with 325. The Northern Cape and Western Cape shared the remainder of 7,500 school pupils.
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