South African regional health minister Phophi Ramathuba is in hot water after allegedly telling a group of girls in secondary school to “open your books and close your legs” during a recent visit. According to BBC News, Ramathuba delivered the controversial comments while visiting Gwenane secondary school in the township of Sekgakgapeng in an attempt to promote abstinence and help lower teen pregnancy rates.
Doctor Phophi Ramathuba who’s also a MEC visited a school in Limpopo this morning telling the girls to close their legs and open their books.
ARE YOU SERIOUS? Is this sex education by our Goverment? Victim Blaming and pushing the narrative? This is disgusting.
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“To the girl child I say: Open your books, and close your legs. Don’t open your legs, open your books. Thank you very much,” the health minister allegedly said, according to BBC.
