Toxic Masculinity

How many more women have to experience sexual violence before we can see a fundamental change?

Calvin Cloete hacked Carmen Gouws to death with an axe and stomped on her back with such force that he left shoe imprints

It’s about diving deep into the tough conversations that are needed for real change to take place

More than 300 000 men have learnt how to be good men, fathers, mentors, and role models through Father A Nation’s programmes

Self-styled podcasting celebrities – usually male – more and more frequently stray into journalism’s lane, but writer Khanya Mtshali probes the pitfalls of this using the…

From an old acquaintance* with benefits

We all need to unlearn the damaging patriarchal presuppositions of gender

Using an ever-present danger works to benefit men — no matter their education, profession, class or outward social behaviour

In the frantic pursuit of patriarchal ideas of manhood, boys often lose their ability to love — this paves the way for cruelty and violence

Toxic masculinities help drive everything from HIV infection rates to gender-based violence. But before we ask, what does it mean to be a ‘man’ in South Africa, should we wonder…

Ignore the language used in brochures and on open days and be vigilant about the details

Many in Nigeria believe that familial and even societal honor depends on women’s complicity, purity, and silence

They learnt violence at home and in society which is marred by inequality and poverty

Many private and former Model C schools may look good, but they are rotten to the core

Women and others are coming forward to say #MeToo. Men in general are silent, knowing they, too, could rightly be the next accused.