Deputy Minister of Higher Education, Science and Innovation, Mr Buti Manamela, to give a keynote address and participate at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) Gender Based Violence Research Indaba in Bellville Campus, Cape Town on Wednesday, 08 March 2023.

Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) is holding its first Research Indaba addressing Gender-Based Violence (GBV) in higher education under the theme.

This Indaba is held under the theme “Crafting trends, patterns, and awareness intervention to combat GBV.”

The main purpose of the Indaba is to share lessons, strategies, interventions, practices and research agendas on:

Holistic, integrated, multi-sectoral coordination and collaboration on gender equality and women empowerment to combat GBV in higher education.

This includes evidence-based research and realist evaluation approaches aimed at developing GBV interventions to existing social problems in order to bring about social change.

This GBV Research Indaba also coincides with the International Women’s Day on 8th March 2023.

Source: Government of South Africa