Deputy Minister of Higher Education, Science and Innovation, Mr Buti Manamela, will deliver a keynote address at the Anti-Gender Based Violent and Femicide (GBV&F) Assemble in Cape Town on the 7th of September 2023.
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 Representation Council are going to convene a Gender-Based Violence Assembly in memory of Ms Uyinene Mrwetyana. Ms Mrwetyana was a student at the University of Cape Town at the time of her untimely passing on 24 August 2019 in Claremont, Cape Town.
The focus of the Assembly is to address the challenges and needs faced by students across all ages, races, sexual orientations, and 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 will bring together about 250 young student leaders from universities and TVET Colleges in the Western Cape with the aim of achieving a multi-sectoral dialogue inclusive of all key players in the sectors.
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 aim to address issues of toxic masculinity, patriarchy, misogynoir, and other related problematic social attitudes that continue to plague our institutions in higher education training sector.
Members of the media are invited to the Anti-GBVF Assembly.
The details of the assembly are as follows:
Date: Thursday, 07 September 2023
Time: 10h00
Venue: University of Cape Town, New Lecture Theatre, Rondebosch, Cape Town
For more information contact:
Mandla Tshabalala
E-mail: Tshabalala.M@dhet.gov.za
Cell: 084 304 6239
Zigcwele Khumalo
E-mail: Zigcwele.Khumalo@dts.gov.za
Cell: 084 285 0856
