The health minister wants to keep “girls in school until matric” and “wean them away from sugar-daddies”. Dr Aaron Motsoaledi announced‚ during his department’s budget vote on Tuesday‚ a “major programme…to deal with the young generation”.It will‚ he said‚ start in Youth Month (June)‚ run for three years and focus “on girls and young women‚ in the age group 15-24 years‚ and the men who are infecting and impregnating them”.This campaign has five objectives:- “Decreasing infections in girls and young women;- “Decreasing teenage pregnancy;- “Decreasing sexual and gender-based violence;- “Keeping girls in school until matric; and- “Increasing economic opportunities for young women to try and wean them away from sugar-daddies.”“This campaign must be a whole of government and whole of society campaign and led by young people‚” said Motsoaledi‚ before pointed to his six young “guests in the gallery” and asking them “to stand so that you can all see them!”This campaign is set to cost R3-billion‚ and will be funded by government departments the US President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief‚ the Global Fund and German Development Agency.Earlier on Tuesday‚ the South African National Civic Organisation called on school governing bodies‚ parents and learners for assistance to “eradicate the scourge of abuse and the sugar-daddy syndrome”.This came as the party pushed for bail to be denied to a “31-year-old teacher accused of assaulting a Grade 11 pupil he was allegedly involved in a romantic relationship with” in Manguzi...