Mmusi Maimane says change must happen in how boys are raised and taught about women and urges parents to be more involved and present in their children's lives.
Maimane says as a man, his role is to work with his peers in fighting for and preserving the dignity of women while they are still young.
As a father of a son, Maimane says his fight against GBV also starts from home, where he has to teach his boy child how women must be treated. The same needs to be done for other young boys in SA who, for generations, had to raise themselves in the absence of their fathers who were forced to leave their families in search of work during apartheid.
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