Question NW127 to the Minister of Basic Education

Reply:

The responses below are provided as per:

The total number of learners in (i) primary and (ii) secondary schools who fell pregnant in each province during the (aa) 2014, (bb) 2015 and (cc) 2016 school years.

(a)(i)(ii)(aa)(bb)(cc)

Table 1: Number of learners who fell pregnant, by province, between 2014 and 2016

Year	Province	Grade 3	Grade 4	Grade 5	Grade 6	Grade 7	Grade 8	Grade 9	Grade 10	Grade 11	Grade 12	Other	Total
2014	EC	0	0	0	5	16	42	67	99	164	134	0	527
	FS	0	1	0	12	7	27	95	182	167	262	12	765
	GT	0	0	4	16	71	201	639	1 541	1 486	1 204	55	5 217
	KZ	7	7	12	27	49	146	338	731	852	862	8	3 039
	LP	0	1		6	6	37	105	197	161	148	2	663
	MP	3	9	83	105	169	357	490	723	670	593	8	3 438
	NC	1	1	3	11	39	69	152	379	278	187	0	1 119
	NW	0	0	0	1	10	203	282	196	106	59	95	953
	WC	0	0	5	25	49	166	498	671	709	740	1	2 864
	National	11	19	107	208	416	1 248	2 666	4 719	4 593	4 189	181	18 357
2015	EC	0	0	2	2	6	19	26	49	82	57	0	243
	FS	1	1	4	6	19	29	56	178	179	221	0	694
	GT	0	1	4	13	56	239	610	1 410	1 689	1 219	5	5 246
	KZ	2	2	4	6	18	87	235	553	729	673	99	2 408
	LP	0	0	0	4	9	34	148	308	216	189	1	909
	MP	4	0	6	22	172	409	489	607	561	378	122	2 770
	NW	0	0	0	4	3	23	54	71	73	46	0	274
	NC	0	0	0	3	4	4	4	18	16	20	0	69
	WC	0	0	7	18	45	165	443	668	799	746	0	2 891
	National	7	4	27	78	332	1 009	2 065	3 862	4 344	3 549	227	15 504
2016	EC				1	1	5	10	20	32	37	0	106
	FS	1		1	3	21	30	50	123	120	138	0	487
	GT	1	2	6	28	83	280	615	1 069	1 118	1 164	0	4 366
	LP				9	5	35	103	241	223	212	0	828
	NW		1			5	17	56	109	91	80	0	359
	WC		1	5	15	48	187	369	526	612	666	0	2 429
	NC					3	6	27	50	40	31	0	157
	National	2	4	12	56	166	560	1 230	2 138	2 236	2 328	0	8 732

Source 1: 2014-16 Annual School Survey

Source 2: PEDs submissions

Note 1: 2016 data for KwaZulu-Natal and Mpumalanga are still not available.

Note 2: The ASS question on learner pregnancy asks the school principal for: “the number of learners (That they are aware of) who got pregnant the previous academic year”.

Note 3: The data, as received from the provinces, are preliminary and must be treated with caution, since it has not been published in this format.

(b) The Department is in no position to report on learners who returned to school after pregnancy.

(c) The following cases were reported to South African Police Services (SAPS) for reasons related to sexual offences in each year:

2013 /14 = 56 680

2014 /15 = 53 617

2015 /16 = 51 895

The South African Police Services collects data on a yearly basis on sexual offences. However, they not only concentrate on reported schools cases but to the entire public services. The referred data is from ‘Crime situation in South Africa’.