South Africa: Blessers and 3000 Pregnancy Awards!
March 25 2017 By Abiodun Giwa

3000 young girls in Ratlou Municipality of South Africa, forced into relationships with Sugar Daddies - otherwise known as Blessers, have reportedly been impregnated.
Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane, in a call for the Social Development Department's intervention, said the girls offer sexual favors to survive biting poverty, according a news report by the SABC.
However, there is no way of knowing the time period, whether it is one year or two or three or five years, when the girls have become pregnant.
But the cause, according to a spokesperson for the youths, Kagiso Gaonamong, confirming the Public Prosecutor's claim, is due to lack of recreation facilities, leading to crime and sex among youths.
“We as the youth have nothing to do in this community, we are not working, we are poor and some end up giving up, dropping out of school and sleeping around. We have a huge problem of girls who fall pregnant because there is nothing to do so we need help with youth centres so that we don't go to taverns and meet with blessers,” Gaonamong said.
Ratlou Municipality is located in the North West of South Africa. According to Wikipedia, it has a population of 107,339 and it has 98.2 percent of black African population. The remaining 1.8 percent goes to colored, Indian/Asia and Whites. 87.9 percent of the population speak Tswana, 3.7 percent speak Sotho, 2.0 percent speak English, 1.9 percent speak Xhosa and others share the remaining 4.5 percent.
It is known the world over that sugar daddies take advantage of poor girls and violate them, but mostly in consensus relationships, because the girls seek to enjoy the monetary offer and other goodies the older men are known to give them, which young men lack, in comparison to the older lovers.
It is almost a worldwide phenomenon. But what has made the South African Ratlou Municipality a cause for concern is the number of pregnancies by young girls with interaction with blessers. Accordingly, the search for solutions shows that the Municipality is looking at what can be done socially and politically.
For example, the offer from the dressers to the girls is viewed as a form of social grants, which the girls cannot avoid or do away with, unless something is offered - as alternative to losing the dressers' goodwill.
One week earlier before the report about the impregnated 3000 young girls, the South African Human Rights Commission had called for the protection and implementation of children's rights, during the country's celebration of Human Rights Day. For over three weeks, there has been concern about the likelihood of social grant earners in south Africa missing getting paid by April 1, 2017.
It is believed that if many social grant earners form government miss getting paid, many young girls in poverty ridden communities will become vulnerable to dressers' demand. But President Jacob Zuma has assured to nation that the grants will be paid, in spite of the widespread fears.
Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane, in a call for the Social Development Department's intervention, said the girls offer sexual favors to survive biting poverty, according a news report by the SABC.
However, there is no way of knowing the time period, whether it is one year or two or three or five years, when the girls have become pregnant.
But the cause, according to a spokesperson for the youths, Kagiso Gaonamong, confirming the Public Prosecutor's claim, is due to lack of recreation facilities, leading to crime and sex among youths.
“We as the youth have nothing to do in this community, we are not working, we are poor and some end up giving up, dropping out of school and sleeping around. We have a huge problem of girls who fall pregnant because there is nothing to do so we need help with youth centres so that we don't go to taverns and meet with blessers,” Gaonamong said.
Ratlou Municipality is located in the North West of South Africa. According to Wikipedia, it has a population of 107,339 and it has 98.2 percent of black African population. The remaining 1.8 percent goes to colored, Indian/Asia and Whites. 87.9 percent of the population speak Tswana, 3.7 percent speak Sotho, 2.0 percent speak English, 1.9 percent speak Xhosa and others share the remaining 4.5 percent.
It is known the world over that sugar daddies take advantage of poor girls and violate them, but mostly in consensus relationships, because the girls seek to enjoy the monetary offer and other goodies the older men are known to give them, which young men lack, in comparison to the older lovers.
It is almost a worldwide phenomenon. But what has made the South African Ratlou Municipality a cause for concern is the number of pregnancies by young girls with interaction with blessers. Accordingly, the search for solutions shows that the Municipality is looking at what can be done socially and politically.
For example, the offer from the dressers to the girls is viewed as a form of social grants, which the girls cannot avoid or do away with, unless something is offered - as alternative to losing the dressers' goodwill.
One week earlier before the report about the impregnated 3000 young girls, the South African Human Rights Commission had called for the protection and implementation of children's rights, during the country's celebration of Human Rights Day. For over three weeks, there has been concern about the likelihood of social grant earners in south Africa missing getting paid by April 1, 2017.
It is believed that if many social grant earners form government miss getting paid, many young girls in poverty ridden communities will become vulnerable to dressers' demand. But President Jacob Zuma has assured to nation that the grants will be paid, in spite of the widespread fears.