Cape Town – The Limpopo Education Department is investigating after a 16-year-old grade 10 student gave birth in a toilet at Molautsi Secondary School in Bloodriver, outside Polokwane.
According to SABC, the student delivered the baby without assistance on Monday.
Her mother confirmed she was seven months pregnant.
The school has a history of high rates of student pregnancies, the report said.
Suzan Xithlelani from the Limpopo Department of Education said the investigation will determine if the school was aware of the pregnancy, noting that schools were required to report such information through the School Administration Management System (SAMS).
It remains unclear how a grade 10 learner gave birth in the toilet at Molautsi Secondary School in Blood River, but the department of education in Limpopo has indicated that the learner and the newborn baby are in the hands of health professionals. MDMhttps://t.co/ExL27NeVQx
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“We heard about the incident that happened in Mulaudzi Secondary School; the problem is that they did not even notify the department about the learner who is pregnant, because normally they had to punch in the information of learner pregnancy in their School Administration Management System (SAMS) so that we are aware of learners who are pregnant in Mulaudzi, but without the SAMS and EMIS to give us the information we are not aware but what the department is doing is to check if any educator were aware,” the report quoted Xithlelani as saying.
The department said that both the student and the newborn were under the care of health professionals, Capricorn FM reported.
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