{"id":215993,"date":"2022-02-08T15:55:47","date_gmt":"2022-02-08T13:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/comprehensive-sexuality-education-key-in-fighting-social-ills\/"},"modified":"2022-02-08T15:55:47","modified_gmt":"2022-02-08T13:55:47","slug":"comprehensive-sexuality-education-key-in-fighting-social-ills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/comprehensive-sexuality-education-key-in-fighting-social-ills\/","title":{"rendered":"Comprehensive Sexuality Education key in fighting social ills"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Basic Education Minister, Angie Motshekga, says that the country needs to realise that Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) is a keystone to push back against social ills, especially HIV, and early and unintended pregnancies.<\/p>\n

Motshekga said that she is alive to the reality that addressing social ills is a societal responsibility, hence using a public medium such as radio to reach out to parents and caregivers.<\/p>\n

The Minister was speaking at the launch of the CSE radio lessons at Hitekani Primary School in Tshiawelo, Soweto on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The Minister said that she felt honoured and privileged to address the launch of \u2018Life on Madlala Street\u2019, a radio drama series adapted from the Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) lessons.<\/p>\n

The series is adapted from the 80 CSE scripted lessons, which are already part of the Life Skills and Life Orientation curriculum. <\/p>\n

The first episode of \u2018Life on Madlala Street\u2019 played today and the next five lessons will play on 15 and 22 February, and 1 and 8 March on 22 community radio stations.  <\/p>\n

\u201cI am genuinely excited that we are witnessing the launch of the CSE Radio Lessons today in \u201cour lifetime\u201d as a country. In the main, this radio drama series seeks to liberate the girl child and women from the iron grip of patriarchy,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

The Minister said that the department opted to use the much-loved and accessible medium of radio to amplify the critical messages of CSE in an age-appropriate manner.<\/p>\n

She said their target market is a million brains of learners, teachers, parents, caregivers, and radio lovers of all hues.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur determination is to teach the values of gender equality anti-gender-based violence messaging while tackling the hot potato of early and unintended pregnancies,\u201d she said.   <\/p>\n

She highlighted the fact that all these social ills such as drugs\/alcohol use, early pregnancies, and gender-based violence sometimes happen on school grounds or to learners accentuates that maxim that our schools are a microcosm of society. <\/p>\n

\u201cThus, the drama series \u2018Life on Madlala Street\u2019<\/em> is a last-ditch effort to scale up our prevention messages through the medium of radio,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

The Minister noted that the launch of this ground-breaking radio drama series comes days before the country marks 2022 Pregnancy Awareness Week and Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs)\/Condom Week.<\/p>\n

At present, the sector provides scripted lessons on Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) and health services to learners, such as access to sexual and reproductive health services in secondary schools.<\/p>\n

However, in primary schools, the sector focuses on raising awareness of social justice principles and addressing vulnerabilities such as abuse reporting and support for children from gender-based violence infested homes.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe also focus on preventing learner pregnancy, alcohol and drug use and now also COVID-19, all these are considered risk factors to women\u2019s health and fertile grounds for gender-based violence,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Motshekga added that their response is multi-faceted to systematically address the identified social ills, including anti-gender-based violence messaging in the curriculum and assessment and learning and teaching support materials.<\/p>\n

She said that the primary concern is the impact of social ills such as gender-based violence and rapes which negatively affect women\u2019s and girls\u2019 well-being and mental health. <\/p>\n

Motshekga has urged society to confront the elephant in the room, \u201cmen who have gone rogue in the name of exerting power through sexual assault\u201d. \u2013 SAnews.gov.za<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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