There is adequate information that says, if you teach children sexual education, you are able to educate them about sexuality, not sexualise them. Member, for instance, when we ask young people about how their pregnancy came, their answer is, "we didn't know it."
So, there is enough evidence internationally, and we are working with experts. That's why we have SANAC and different groups which help us in terms of saying, what are the facts that we need to deal with concerning HIV/Aids, because the fact is, indeed, we are confronting a major problems. If I can inform you, we have almost 200 infections per day of young people. So, we have to talk about these things.
In 2017, we had almost 19,000 young girls falling pregnant. We have to talk about these things in order to save our children. So, we have statistics which says we have to do it. It's not a choice, we have to do it. Our children need this sex education to be sexually aware so that, when an uncle touches them in a wrong part, they don't keep quiet. They will understand that it's an inappropriate touching.
So, we are not that evil, member, which we would teach young people things that would not be of value to them. But we have to confront the huge crisis about the HIV/Aids, huge crisis about unintended early pregnancies, we have huge problem about child molestation and these, we have to confront. This is one of the weapons to confront some of these problems facing us. Thank you, ma'am.