Chairperson, I hereby give notice on behalf of the DA that at the next sitting of the Council I shall move:
That the Council -
1) notes that hospital statistics reflect the increasing problem of teen pregnancies between April 2010 and March 2011, namely -
a) 110 477 teenage girls in South Africa under the age of 19 were pregnant;
b) 8 451 of those were aged between 10 and 14 years of age;
c) 102 025 were between 15 and 18 years of age; and
2) further notes that more and more children younger than 10 years old are becoming sexually active and that when the teens mentioned were impregnated, there was no support from most of the parents and they had to depend on the R250 grant per month; and
3) requests more intensive sex education programmes in schools to alleviate this growing time bomb of teen pregnancies.