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Teenage pregnancies up in Beitbridge

Staff Writer

This comes after a disturbing recent national survey found that about 30 percent of girls in the country were married before they turned 18 last year — with many of these sad cases occurring in rural and impoverished areas.

BEITBRIDGE has recorded an increase in teenage pregnancies and early child marriages, particularly in areas along illegal exit and entry points to neighbouring South Africa, a recent study has revealed. According to findings of a Population Mobility Mapping (PMM) study conducted in Beitbridge in October this year, numerous cases of early marriages and pregnancies were…

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