[PICS] Playing Dad Cape Town film launch

Here is the good news: fathering is learnable. It's learned the way every craft is learned – by apprenticeship. Watching. Copying. Asking. Failing next to someone who has failed before you and kept going. 

Head of Research at Heartlines, Livhuwani Maphorogo, convened a workshop for authors contributing to an upcoming Heartlines publication on interdisciplinary perspectives on fatherhood, masculinity and youth in South Africa.

Themba has carried the strange inheritance of needing to father his father, and has come to believe that it means three different things. Read his powerful reflections. 

When one of his social fathers invited Lehlohonolo to a leadership moment, things didn't turn out quite as he'd expected. But he learnt a life-changing lesson that he still relies on today. 

Initiation Series: Part 2

This second article in our initiation series looks at what boys can learn about becoming men who lead well from their time at initiation school. 

Fatherhood can sometimes feel quite lonely, because no one tells you how to father. When a woman gives birth her village automatically takes arm and offers support, advice, meal plans and encouragement. But as a new dad you can find yourself navigating this journey largely on your own.