[ TEENAGE PREGNANCY ] [ THE BIG ISSUE ]
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After Boitumelo gave birth she decided not to go back to school. She assumed that, because she was now a mother, she would be barred from returning Then she had a surprising interaction:
“They [school] were like, why did you not come back, do you attend [school] elsewhere? I was like, no, I have a child. Then they were like, in January we need you here, this school is empty without you, and that gave me the confidence of saying, oh I must go