Many school students get pregnant at school South Africa

36 pupils are pregnant at a secondary school in the northeast of South Africa.

The ministry is investigating the cause of the high number of pregnancies at the school in the Vhembe region. 'It is surprising,' says Shikhwambana. 'Normally there are not so many pregnancies at a school. 'The school in the neighborhood of the city of Thohoyandou has about nine hundred pupils.

Teenage pregnancies in South Africa are common. Especially in rural areas such as Limpopo. Across South Africa, about 15 percent of all women have at least one child before they turn nineteen.