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Family rights in African contexts: decolonising the nuclear family narrative

Seminars
Venues in Pretoria, Durban and Cape Town (Videoconferencing facilities)
19 March 2019

Date: Tuesday, 19 March 2019
Time: 12:30 – 14:00
Venues: Video conference in Pretoria, Cape Town and KwaZulu-Natal | Livestream by Vidyo

The presentations are available for download below:

Speakers: Dr Tawanda Makusha, Human and Social Development, HSRC, Dudu Dlamini, Mothers for the Future, Sex Workers Education & Advocacy Taskforce (SWEAT), Dr Haley McEwen, Wits Centre for Diversity Studies, University of Witwatersrand and Dr Ingrid Lynch, Human and Social Development, HSRC

Chair: Prof Finn Reygan, Human and Social Development, HSRC

The African Charter promotes and protects human rights and basic freedoms on the African continent, including the rights of families. In South Africa and across the region there is increased understanding of and appreciation for the diversity of family structures and care. This seminar will encourage critical reflection on families, kinship and parenthood in the African context, with a particular focus on family diversity.

Presenters will share new avenues of research and practice on families in the South African context, honing in on gendered, classed and racialised norms in parenthood and care.

Key issues that will be explored include:

  • the rights and realities of LGBTI / queer families
  • the role and status of South African men as fathers
  • parenting experiences of persons who engage in sex work.

The discussion will draw out crosscutting implications for government decision-makers and policy development.

Kindly RSVP

Pretoria: HSRC Video Conference Room, 1st  floor HSRC Library, 134 Pretorius Street, Pretoria.
Contact Arlene Grossberg  | T: (012) 302 2811  | E: acgrossberg@hsrc.ac.za

Cape Town: HSRC Video Conference Room, Merchant House 116-118 Buitengracht Street, Cape Town.
Contact Carmen Erasmus  | T: (021) 466 7827  | E: cerasmus@hsrc.ac.za

Durban: HSRC Video Conference Room, The Atrium, 5th Floor, 430 Peter Mokaba Ridge, Berea, 4001.
Contact Ridhwaan Khan  | T: (031) 242 5400  | C: 083 788 2786  | E: RKhan@hsrc.ac.za or Wiseman Mbambo | E: wmbambo@hsrc.ac.za

Port Elizabeth: 1st Floor East Wing, Building 1 Ascot Office Park, Corner Conyngham & Ascot Roads, Greenacres, Port Elizabeth
Contact: Nomfanelo Plaatjie | T: 041 393 9500 | E: nplaatjie@hsrc.ac.za

Vidyo Link: https://hsrc-vc.tenet.ac.za/flex.html?roomdirect.html&key=GGKGXLnInSbnn5Mspk7JfF1qu8