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Thankfully, she never mustered the courage to go through with the act.
And when she informed her boyfriend that she was pregnant, he was excited and even suggested marrying her.
“I didn’t want to get married because I still wanted to go back to school,” she says.
Eventually ’Mamphethe had to drop out of school to look after her baby. She says her pregnancy was not an easy one.
“I got sick often so I couldn’t concentrate in class,” she says, adding that after giving birth she thought things would be much easier.
“As a daughter-in-law, I am still expected to do house chores even though I haven’t fully recovered. I hardly rest because my baby hardly sleeps at night.”