Scholarship reward for remaining virgins
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A South African mayor has awarded college scholarships to 16 young women for remaining virgins to encourage others to be 鈥減ure and focus on school,鈥 her spokesman said yesterday.
The scholarship was introduced this year and has been awarded to young women from the Uthukela district in the eastern KwaZulu-Natal province, mayoral spokesman Jabulani Mkhonza said. Each year the mayor鈥檚 office awards scholarships to over 100 promising high school and university students from the area, he said.
The young women who applied for the scholarships voluntarily stayed virgins and agreed to have regular virginity tests to keep their funding, Uthukela Mayor Dudu Mazibuko told South African talk radio station 702.
鈥淭o us, it鈥檚 just to say thank you for keeping yourself and you can still keep yourself for the next three years until you get your degree or certificate,鈥 Mazibuko said.
The grants will be renewed 鈥渁s long as the child can produce a certificate that she is still a virgin,鈥 she said. The scholarships focus on young women because they are more vulnerable to exploitation, teenage pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases, she said.
鈥淚 think the intentions of the mayor are great but what we don鈥檛 agree with is giving bursaries for virginity,鈥 said chairman for the Commission for Gender Equality Mfanozelwe Shozi. 鈥淭here is an issue around discrimination on the basis of pregnancy, virginity and even against boys. This is going too far.鈥
Virginity testing is not against South Africa鈥檚 constitution but it is essential that it is done with consent, said Shozi.
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