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This factsheet provides a brief overview of the laws on corporal punishment in South Africa.
On a new kind of fatherhood that has gender equality and a good relationship between the parents as cornerstones.
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Gender-based violence can be tackled at its roots by fathers taking an active role in caring for their children, writes Sonke’s Wessel van den Berg in the Mail & Guardian today.
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Sonke, the Co-Chair of the MenEngage Alliance, celebrates a successful global symposium that was held earlier this month in Delhi. From November 10-13th, nearly 1200 delegates from 94 countries attended the 2nd Global MenEngage symposium and on November 14th, the …
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One girl’s reflections on the loss of her loving father vis-a-vis the typical idea of fatherhood held by society.
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Sonke’s Nokhwezi Hoboyi is on Kasi FM now discussing Mmoho – Planning Teens Bright Futures campaign on preventing unintended teenage pregnancies. You can listen online: http://streema.com/radios/Kasi_FM
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June 15 marks the fourth Father’s Day I’ll spend without my dad. He died in January 2011, which means that, for me, the day most people get together to celebrate their fathers has become a poignant reminder that he is …
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MenCare is a global campaign to promote men’s involvement as equitable, responsive and non-violent fathers and caregivers. It provides high quality community and mass media messages, technical assistance and training, policy and program recommendations and evidence to support local NGOs, …
On September 20 Sonke held a Fatherhood Graduation in Lower Crossroads. The program promotes positive parenting and encourages fathers to be involved in their children’s lives. It also teaches fathers to be good role models for their kids. Fathers and …
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The importance of Hendri Terblanche’s petition to provide new fathers with ten days of paid paternity leave.
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How state-recognised paternity leave would improve quality of life for the whole family.
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This month, Hendri Terblanche gave birth to an important petition, just eight months after his twin children were born prematurely. His petition, which seeks to provide new fathers with 10 days paternity leave, was submitted to the National Council of …
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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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During Child Protection Week, Sonke’s Wessel van den Berg and Andre Lewaks talk on Growing Pains (Groeipyne with Johan van Lill) on Radio Sonder Grense (Radio Without Borders) about how to use positive discipline and about Sonke’s efforts to promote …
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Sonke’s Wessel van den Berg and Andre Lewaks will be on Radio RSG today, on a show called Growing Pains (Groeipyne with Johan van Lill) from 12-12:30pm – they are talking to parents about how to use positive discipline and …
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It takes 28 days to change a habit – use Child Protection Month to improve your parenting habits! ‘I never spanked my child, even though everyone around me was doing it. Today she is an adult, and tells me that …
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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. …
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