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Reproductive Health Matters
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Volume 21, 2013 - Issue 41: Young people, sex and relationships
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Policy commitments vs. lived realities of young pregnant women and mothers in school, Western Cape, South Africa

Sisa NgabazaLecturer, Women's and Gender Studies, University of the Western Cape, Bellville,South [email protected]
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Tamara SheferProfessor, Women's and Gender Studies,University of the Western Cape, Bellville,South Africa
Pages 106-113 | Published online: 14 May 2013

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Janina Jochim, Lucie Cluver, Lulama Sidloyi, Jane Kelly, Abigail Ornellas, Hlokoma Mangqalaza, Chelsea Coakley, Coceka Nogoduka, Managa Pillay, Busisa Nokama, Gavin George, Elona Toska & Teen Advisory Group Eastern Cape. (2023) Improving educational and reproductive outcomes for adolescent mothers in South Africa: A cross-sectional analysis towards realising policy goals. Global Public Health 18:1.
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Janina Jochim, Franziska Meinck, Elona Toska, Kathryn Roberts, Camille Wittesaele, Nontokozo Langwenya & Lucie Cluver. (2023) Who goes back to school after birth? Factors associated with postpartum school return among adolescent mothers in the Eastern Cape, South Africa. Global Public Health 18:1.
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Allison K. Groves, Luwam T. Gebrekristos, Luz McNaughton Reyes, Dhayendre Moodley, Valerie Raziano & Suzanne Maman. (2022) A mixed-methods study of resilience and return to school among adolescent mothers in South Africa. Global Public Health 17:9, pages 2111-2124.
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Pempho Chinkondenji. (2022) Schoolgirl pregnancy, dropout or pushout?: an Ubuntucentric re-construction of the education for student mothers in Malawi. Gender and Education 34:6, pages 738-753.
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Catriona Ida Macleod & Tracey Feltham-King. (2020) Young pregnant women and public health: introducing a critical reparative justice/care approach using South African case studies. Critical Public Health 30:3, pages 319-329.
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Sisa Ngabaza & Tamara Shefer. (2019) Sexuality education in South African schools: deconstructing the dominant response to young people’s sexualities in contemporary schooling contexts. Sex Education 19:4, pages 422-435.
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Tamara Shefer. (2016) Resisting the binarism of victim and agent: Critical reflections on 20 years of scholarship on young women and heterosexual practices in South African contexts. Global Public Health 11:1-2, pages 211-223.
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By Dr Gift Sotonye-Frank. (2024) Gender Stereotyping and School Exclusion of Adolescent Pregnant Girls. International Journal of Educational Research Open 7, pages 100354.
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Anthony Idowu Ajayi, Sherine Athero, Winstoun Muga & Caroline W. Kabiru. (2023) Lived experiences of pregnant and parenting adolescents in Africa: A scoping review. Reproductive Health 20:1.
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Janina Jochim, Lucie D. Cluver & Franziska Meinck. (2021) Learner pregnancy in South Africa’s Eastern Cape: The Factors affecting adolescent girls' school withdrawal during pregnancy. International Journal of Educational Development 87, pages 102484.
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Tshiamo N Ramalepa, Tendani S Ramukumba & Mmajapi E Masala-Chokwe. (2021) Teenage pregnancies in Bapong schools, Madibeng local municipality: Teachers’ views. South African Journal of Education 41:2, pages 1-8.
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Monica Fisher, Violet Nyabaro, Ruth Mendum & Moses Osiru. (2020) Making it to the PhD: Gender and student performance in sub-Saharan Africa. PLOS ONE 15:12, pages e0241915.
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Michelle Olivia Erasmus, Lucia Knight & Jessica Dutton. (2020) Barriers to accessing maternal health care amongst pregnant adolescents in South Africa: a qualitative study. International Journal of Public Health 65:4, pages 469-476.
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Stephanie Simmons Zuilkowski, Margaret Henning, Joseph Mumba Zulu & Beatrice Matafwali. (2019) “Once they fall pregnant, they don't come back”: Teacher perspectives on Zambia's school re-entry policy for adolescent mothers. Teaching and Teacher Education 86, pages 102880.
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Patrick Ndayizigamiye & Sogo France Matlala. (2018) A Design of a Mobile Health System to Address Teenage Pregnancy in South African Hige Schools. A Design of a Mobile Health System to Address Teenage Pregnancy in South African Hige Schools.
Rachel Bennett & Philippa Waterhouse. (2018) Work and family transitions and the self-rated health of young women in South Africa. Social Science & Medicine 203, pages 9-18.
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