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More than half of the children growing up in South Africa do so without a father present in the home. A confluence of history, poverty and harmful ideas about manhood has led to more and more men becoming absent in …
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On a daily basis, newspapers across the country tell story after story of the horrors perpetrated against children: from the parents of a seven-week-old baby inflicting upon their baby three broken ribs, a fractured knee and brain injuries, to a …
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Sonke’s MenCare posters feature community members from the Matzikama area in the Western Cape as role models of positive, engaged and equitable parenting, and celebrates fatherhood in the predominant Afrikaans language of that community. The Afrikaans posters are available here. …
Sonke’s MenCare posters feature community members from the Matzikama area in the Western Cape as role models of positive, engaged and equitable parenting, and celebrates fatherhood in the predominant Afrikaans language of that community. The English posters are available here. …
The MenEngage Africa Policy report Series is a set of policy advocacy tools to assist MenEngage partners in highlighting the need for male engagement to be prioritised at a policy level. The policy reports assess the extent to which national …
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The Centre for Social Development in Africa (CSDA) and Sonke Gender Justice set out to speak to fathers who are not living with their children, have little contact with them and/or seldom provide them with money. The research project did …
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The First Global Meeting of the MenCare Gender Equitable Fatherhood Campaign was held in Cape Town from the 10th to the 12th June 2013. This meeting brought MenCare partner organizations from all over the world together to Cape Town, during …
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Sonke’s Patrick Godana was interviewed on Voice of the Cape FM to share his views of the National Name and Shame Campaign that targets absentee fathers and maintenance defaulters. Patrick underscores the need to look at father involvement beyond mere …
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Free State Men’s Sector On 15 May Maluti-A-Phofung Local Municipality commemorated the International Family Day at Thaba Bosiu Tribal Hall with different stakeholders. Free State Men sector was represented as it had to deliver a talk about the role of …
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Brown Bottle Entertainment (BBE) embarked on a massive door-to-door campaign targeting the Zola Emndeni area on 1 April 2013. This activity was supported by Brothers For Life, with more than 60 men participating. The men gathered at Zola Clinic at …
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Sonke’s work on positive, involved fatherhood with MenCare was featured in two full-page newspaper articles on March 27th, one in Pretoria News and one in The Star. » South Africa is a Nation of Deadbeat Dads and the Fallout Hurts Us …
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An article written by the Sonke team – Wessel van den Berg, Lynn Hendricks, Abigail Hatcher, Dean Peacock, Patrick Godana & Shari Dworkin – about the effect of participation in the One Man Can programme on parenting beliefs and practices …
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A success story from the MenCare programme. Although many of the activities that will ultimately make up the MenCare programme are still in their infancy, one story from the MenCare Southern Africa programme has stood out for us as an …
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Sonke Gender Justice, the MenEngage Africa Network and the Women’s Health Research Unit of the University of Cape Town facilitated a groundbreaking ten day training course on Masculinities, Leadership and Gender Justice in Sub-Saharan Africa from 20-30 August 2012. The …
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In my capacity as a gender equality activist, I recently attended a conference titled Work/Force: masculinities in the South African media. Hosted by the Department of Visual Arts at Stellenbosch University and the University of Cape Town’s African Cinema Unit …
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The MenCare campaign, launched on 8 August 2011 in Soweto, has just celebrated its first South African birthday. The first year focused on two dimensions: shifting social norms through media such as radio and print, and establishing relationships with policymakers …
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Patrick Godana and Wessel van den Berg recently paid a visit to Men for Gender Equality Sweden (MfJ), to lay the foundation for a partnership between Sonke and MfJ. With the support of Sida, the two organisations are in a …
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Talk SA is airing a Male Role Models episode on Tuesday 31 July, featuring Ompile who nominated his father Philly in the My Dad Can Campaign. The show will also be encouraging viewers to vote for their role models in …
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