South Africa virginity bursaries unlawful, rules gender commission

[Eugene]

Source: BBC

South Africa virginity bursaries unlawful, rules gender commission

17 June 2016 Africa

An official body in South Africa has ruled that university bursaries offered to proven female virgins were unlawful and should be scrapped.

The Uthukela municipality in KwaZulu-Natal province introduced the bursaries to reduce Aids and child pregnancies.

But the Commission for Gender Equality ruled that a bursary "contingent on a female student's virginity is fundamentally discriminatory".

The scheme caused an uproar when it was unveiled earlier this year.

In a ruling made after rights groups referred the scheme to it, the commission said: "It goes against the ethos of the constitutional provisions in relation to dignity, equality and discrimination."

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[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. I believe their intentions were good, but omigod.

It is discriminatory. VERY.

[Warpy]

2. A hymen is long gone by the time many young girls reach puberty

and insisting on a medical exam to look for one as some sort of proof of anything is humiliating beyond belief.

Personally, I'd like to see getting rid of it in baby girls part of the whole birth process. It's been such a convenient excuse to treat women horribly for far too long.