Pregnant teens: Here’s where Mzansi is going wrong

Over 100 teenage mothers in South Africa gave birth on Christmas and New Year’s Day this year. This figure from the National Health Department has sounded the alarm for local healthcare authorities.

On this week’s episode of the Health For Mzansi podcast we chat to experts, Dr Mthembeni Tebelele, Steve Letsike and Lucy Khofi about the teen pregnancy pandemic in Mzansi.

Tebelele is a celebrity general practitioner, while Letsike and Khofi are health activists. The experts share their insights on whether poverty and a lack of sex education from an early age could be contributing factors to the country’s high teenage pregnancy rate.