Gloves off in GBV Fight
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Friday, 27 August 2021
CPUT has upped the ante in its fight against Gender-Based Violence (GBV).
In June the institutions’ Executive Management were trained on their responsibilities in handling GBV, now the rest of the CPUT community is in line to receive similar training.
The training roll-out puts CPUT at the forefront of the higher education sector’s response to this societal scourge.
This is because CPUT is the first university to internalise and institutionalise the fight against GBV via its dedicated Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Committee, which is chaired by Vice-Chancellor Prof Chris Nhlapo.
The high-level institutional GBV committee is comprised of delegates from the SRC and Management and aims to ensure accountability, coordination, and leadership of the GBV Policy for Higher Education.
Nonkosi Tyolwana, Director for Institutional Transformation, Social Cohesion and Diversity, says the GBV training will be cascaded through the university committee in the coming few months.
“The training will explore how gender identities are defined in our formative years, and how this resonates in a 21st century context,” says Tyolwana.
“This becomes critical conversations to have with a higher education context when you have young people from all walks of life intermingling for the first time in their lives. We also need to remain aware of the natural power imbalances that can form within a university context. If we arm our students and staff to be conscious of this then they can avoid GBV pitfalls.”
CPUT’s GBV training and the response have been crafted in response to the Western Cape National Prosecuting Authority.
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