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24 Jan 2024|Gosiame Masike

Absent fathers, crime and stigma of being a single father

Gosiame Masike, who’s a single father raising a daughter and the head of Heartlines’ Correctional Services, says that communities should be careful about ostracising and alienating single fathers, adding that fathers, too, need support.

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22 Jan 2024|Gosiame Masike

Absent fathers fuel crime in children

Head of Heartlines' Department of Correctional Services and a single father raising a daughter, Gosiame Masike, says South Africa is seeing signs of change and that a new generation of fathers is emerging.

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17 Jan 2024|Gosiame Masike

Absent fathers, crime and the stigmas

According to Statistics South Africa, half of all children in the country don’t live with their biological fathers. Studies further show that youth with the highest incarceration rates are those who never had a father living with them.

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Cape Argus
15 Jan 2024|Gosiame Masike

Absent fathers, stigma of being a single dad

Gosiame Masike, head of Heartlines’ Department of Correctional Services and a single father raising a daughter, talks about how the father figures in his life shaped him as a young man and communities stigmatising single fathers.

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08 Dec 2023|Gosiame Masike

Ostracising loving single fathers

A single father raising a daughter and the head of Heartlines’ Correctional Services, Gosiame Masike, says that communities should be careful about ostracising and alienating single fathers. He adds that fathers, and any parent or guardian need all the support they can get.

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03 Dec 2023|Professor Corné Davis

Survivor’s story: absent father and domestic violence

Professor Corné Davis' opinion piece reflects on how households without fathers can cause boys to become perpetrators of violence and cause girls to become victims. 

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20 Jul 2023|Karishma Dipa

'Papa do my hair' initiative gets more dads involved

A hair salon is usually off-limits to men, but a group of fathers have teamed up in a bid to shatter stereotypes and show up for their daughters while also learning how to style up.

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11 Jul 2023|Nadia Khan

Empowering ‘community fathers’ to be change-makers

Heartlines was part of a workshop to mobilise 'community fathers' to create safe spaces in the Wentworth community, with the intention of reducing violence and promoting a more peaceful and cohesive society.

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27 Jun 2023|Mpumalanga News

KaBokweni St Mary’s Anglican Church celebrates Father’s Day

The Father's Day celebration was held to appreciate the role of fathers and to discuss the challenges they face.

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24 Jun 2023|Latoya Newman

Breaking the mould of the ‘deadbeat dad’

In the spirit of Father's Day and Youth Month, the Fathers Matter project aims to draw attention to fatherhood in South Africa.

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22 Jun 2023|Expresso

Raising boys to be good men

The Character Company, one of the organisations that Heartlines' partners with, spoke to Expresso about how men can step up and help build positive foundations in boys' lives. 

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Good Hope FM Drive Show
21 Jun 2023|Good Hope FM

People want a safe space

In this podcast Kyeezi chats to Svinurayi “Shuwa” Gonera who plays the role of Litha in the FathersMatter film Airwalker.

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