In their quest to encourage young girls to stay pure and focus on their education, the uThukela District municipality in KwazuluNatal has awarded bursaries to a number of young women. The Maidens Bursary Award introduced during their recent Mayoral Matric Excellence Awards, is given to girls for being virgins. There is a condition though, that in order to keep their bursaries, the maidens will have to undergo regular check-up during holidays. If they lose their virginity, then the bursary gets taken away. While some see this, as an invasion of their privacy, others believe the bursaries encourage young girls to stay pure and focus on their education. On the Forum@8 we ask this morning, is the Maiden's Bursary Award a noble incentive, or an infringement on young women's rights to dignity? Our guests are the Mayor of the UThukela District Municipality in Kwa-Zulu Natal, Researcher on gender and cultural issues Nomboniso Gasa and Honorary Research Professor Durban University of Technology Nceba Gqaleni.