Deputy Minister of Higher Education, Science and Innovation, Mr Buti Manamela, delivered a keynote address at the Anti-Gender Based Violent and Femicide (GBV&F) Assembly held at the University of Cape Town, today.
As part of the government’s existing efforts to eradicate the GBV and Femicide scourge in Post School Education and Training (PSET) sector the Office of the Deputy Minister, Higher Health, and the University of Cape Town Student Representative Council convened a Gender-Based Violence Assembly in memory of the victims of GBV&F.
The focus of the Assembly was to address the challenges and needs of students across all ages, races, sexual orientations, gender identities; and specific groups such as persons living with disabilities, migrant women, and trans bodies impacted by the scourge of Gender-Based Violence scourge in PSET sector.
The Assembly brought together over 200 young student leaders from universities and TVET Colleges in the Western Cape. The objective was for a multi-sectoral dialogue that included all key players in the sector.
CEO of Higher Health, Prof Ramneek Ahluwalia, also presented at the event, and alluded to the following, “As an overarching outcome, it is hoped that this model of participatory pedagogy will enable staff and all students in the PSET to design programmes and further come up with solution-orientated interventions to create cultural norms that will eventually address issues of toxic masculinity, patriarchy, misogynoir, and other related problematic social attitudes that continue to plague our institutions in higher education training sector”.