Lerato Mbhiza
President Cyril Ramaphosa engaged with young men and boys at a Soweto Indaba, on the fight against gender-based violence and shared with them progress the government has made in dealing and preventing the scourge in schools.
Ramaphosa said young men especially were susceptible to violence because they face a lot of pressure from family, relationships, friends, school and places of higher learning, in peer groups and in society as a whole.
Also, boys were vulnerable to recruitment by gangs and pressured to take part in criminal activities, he said, adding that ‘the young men of this country are being made into men before their time’.
“You may face pressure from your friends to become sexually active even when you are not ready to, because this is seen as being a real man. Worse yet, engaging in unsafe sex practices is also seen as more manly.
“Also being forced
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