Teen mom warns youngsters against 'blessers'
A 17-year-old mother has spoken out against blessers and is urging young girls not to fall prey to them.
Phumla Mpunzana from Nonhleko Secondary School says she had a relationship last year with a 28-year-old man.
She says he gave her R100 every day for lunch and took her places she'd never been before like the Gateway Mall.
"I wanted to fit in with my peers, I wanted to be like them have fancy clothes, a fancy cellphone and money for lunch and he gave me that. I was a real princess. Now he doesn't want to talk to me anymore and I don't want to talk to him anymore.
"My goal was to finish school and be a teacher, then get married and have babies. Not to have a baby in high school completing Grade 11," he said.
Mpunzana was speaking at a Teenage Pregnancy Prevention briefing in Durban yesterday.
(Photo: Chanelle Lutchman)