According to information released by Statistics South Africa, 1,003,307 births were registered in the country last year.
More than 34,000 of the new moms were under seventeen years old, with 688 of them between 9- and 10 years old.
KwaZulu-Natal remains one of the provinces where parents are slow to register new births and only 64% of births in this province are reported within the prescribed 30 days after birth.
According to Statistics SA, one of the biggest challenges remains to register the fathers of the babies and in more than 60% of the cases, no details of the fathers were entered on…
