They asked her whether they were going to marry her if they sent her back to school. Gata said 3 324 girls in secondary school and 109 in primary school got pregnant last year. Mashonaland East had the highest number of girls in secondary school that got pregnant with 499 while Masshonaland West had the highest number of primary school children at 18. The three Mashonaland provinces constituted 42% of the total secondary school girls that got pregnant and 40% of those in primary school. “However, I am not denying that the numbers of our young girls going into marriages and getting pregnant are high.”(287 VIEWS)