Namibia: Learners Cautioned Against Teenage Pregnancy

Tsumeb — Pupils have been cautioned to guard against teenage pregnancy and to focus on their education, so that they can have a better future.

This was a precaution from Minister of Gender Equality and Social Welfare Doreen Sioka, who said young women are lured by men into sexual acts for money and in pretence that they will marry them, hence cautioning the learners that men do not marry uneducated women, thus the learners should not fall prey to men before they have secured their own future.

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