South Africa
ANC presidential hopeful will push for chemical castration─── 08:21 Wed, 27 Jul 2022
ANC presidential hopeful, Lindiwe Sisulu, has painted a bleak picture of widespread teenage pregnancies involving adults who sleep with children and has vowed to propose – at the ANC national conference – for the chemical castration of abusers.
The Citizen reports the Human Settlements minister – who is also chair of the ANC’s Subcommittee on Social Transformation – described the situation as “horrific”.
She quoted a recent report indicating South Africa has the highest rate of child pregnancies in the world.
Between 2021 and 2022, a total of 90,000 teenage pregnancies were recorded. Most of those pregnancies involved relations between adult men and teenage girls and not between teenage boys and girls. Children involved were between the ages of 10 and 19.
She said while a proposal for chemical castration was rejected at the previous ANC National Conference, she would still advocate for it to be adopted as policy at the next conference.
