Teachers play a vital role in educating and teaching of children at school. One of theareas for teaching responsibility is development of the individual learner to be acompetent community member, either as a professional or as an otherwise- skilledperson.

It is therefore for that reason that the South African government introducedinto the curriculum at school level a subject that is directed at life orientation toempower learners. Teachers bear the responsibility of teaching this subject.

One of the topics in the Life Orientation subject is Reproductive Healthcare, which issupposed to empower the learners especially with matters of sex and sexuality,diseases included. Despite the teaching of this topic in schools, the rate of teenagepregnancies and occurrence of sexually -transmitted infections remains on theincrease in the country.

Although much literature exists about teenage pregnancy inthe country, there is theoretical paucity on how teachers view their responsibility toteach reproductive healthcare. The questions that prompted and have been raised inthis study have been.

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