Virginity Certificate Offered Deserved Girls By A Church In South Africa

“OH Yes!, I am a certified virgin”!, some South African girls can blush to interested men as a South African Church is preaching sexual righteousness by issuing Certificates of Virginity to female members after thoroughly carrying out examination tests on them.

The move has been aimed at rewarding the female members for self-discipline and self-control in the face of social and economic influences.   The certificates are tenable proves to their intending partners that they are still intact and aimed at proving the authenticity that they still keep their chastity intact.

The Nazareth Baptist Church located in Ebuhleni carried out free virginity tests on unmarried ladies who are members of the church and who are 18 years and above.

The certificate offer test is aimed at encouraging young girls and matured ladies in the society to keep their chastity intact and abstain from premarital sexual activities prior to their marriage.

The exercise, according to reports is an annual activity conducted by the church and aimed at proving to unsuccessful ones that it pays to be disciplined. At the end of the exercise, successful participants receive a Certificate of Virginity a Certificate which proves to intending lovers they remain productively potent and their sanctity intact.

Sources confirmed that the yearly event is always anticipated and during the exercise, white marks are inscribed on the forehead of those who pass the test after some examination. It was not however confirmed whether the exercise are carried out by the Church women or men.

The exercise is held in the middle of every year while the certificates are issued, which become invalid by the middle of each year when the next virginity test is conducted again by the church.

The 2022/2023 exercise was carried out by the church on Monday, July 4 with instant certificate issued to all successful ladies.

The virginity certificate is usually signed by the Leader of Nazareth Baptist Church and co-signed by the head of the specialist organisation who carried out the tests.

In 2016, a South African region launched a grant scheme for girls who remain virgins throughout their university studies. The bursary scheme, offered in Uthukela, in the south-east of the country near Durban, was brainchild of municipality female mayor, Dudu Mazibujo .News of the scheme sparked outrage from civil society groups, and other human rights organisations and  women’s association, branding the scheme as unconstitutional and psychologically humiliating to many other girls who were un