{"id":1704,"date":"2026-01-04T02:09:28","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T02:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/1704\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T02:09:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T02:09:28","slug":"stats-sa-records-over-100000-births-by-teen-mothers-since-january-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/1704\/","title":{"rendered":"Stats SA records over 100,000 births by teen mothers since January 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A social movement advocating for mothers has raised concerns about the high number of children giving birth over the festive period.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"3\">This comes after the Social Development and Health Departments reported that 21 children were born to teenagers aged between15 and 19 years in the Eastern Cape on New Year&#8217;s Day.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"4\">Statistics South African (Stats SA) has recorded more than 100,000 births by mothers aged 19 and younger between 1 January 2024 and 28 February 2025.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"5\">Embrace Movement for Mothers spokesperson Nonkululeko Mbuli said it is a massive concern that needs to be addressed.<\/p>\n<p data-path-to-node=\"6\">&#8220;What we tend to do as a society is reduce teenage pregnancy to an individual moral failing on the part of the young girl or teenager who has become a mother, but we need to be looking at this issue holistically, systematically and structurally as well,&#8221; said Mbuli.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A social movement advocating for mothers has raised concerns about the high number of children giving birth over&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1705,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[397,398,403,400,399,401,96,402,406,405,404,131],"class_list":{"0":"post-1704","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-south-africa","8":"tag-ewn","9":"tag-ewn-news","10":"tag-ewn-south-africa","11":"tag-eye-witness-news","12":"tag-eyewitness-news","13":"tag-latest-news","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-news-today","16":"tag-prime-media-plus","17":"tag-primedia-plus","18":"tag-primedia","19":"tag-south-africa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}