Until recently South Africa has been a male dominated country lead by a patriarchal system.This system has been catapulted through masculinity, using masculinty as a tool to acquire dominanace an inequality in South Africa. The plartfoem used to enforce this masculine behaviours has been thorugh societal conditions thata become gender norms that set standards or expectations for how people should behave and interact.
In 1998 my parents enrolled me in and after school project named TEKPREP(Technical Preparation) which focused in developing young people on different skills,introducing them to variety of work fields. One of the fields was community work where we offered different services to a number of institutes from shelters to oprhanages and this became my introduction to social work. It was later that I got to understand the term activist and what it meant.
