Tanzania Daily News (Dar es Salaam)  Tanzania: They Erred but
Should Go Back to School  Photo: Lauren Everitt/AllAfrica Young
women perform in traditional dress in Arusha, Tanzania.  THE
Constitution Review Commission has been told that it is unfair
to terminate the educational pursuits of schoolgirls who get
pregnant.  The bone of contention here is that most men who put
schoolgirls in the family way are never prosecuted or punished.
The other anomaly is that the parents of the pregnant schoolgirl
often demand dowry from the offending man and the dispute ends
once the dowry is delivered.  So unceremoniously, her education
life ends there and then. Schoolgirls, like their brothers, need
education. They do not need husbands - at least for that time
being when they are pursuing their education. President Jakaya
Kikwete has often spoken bitterly and even angrily at public
rallies on school pregnancies when touring the southern regions
of Mtwara, Lindi and Ruvuma.  He has ordered that all men who
are proven guilt