Lecture:

Sheila Meintjes (South Africa):
The law and policing gender violence:
from the 16 days campaign to the World Cup

This talk does not consider the big question why gender based violence exists; instead it focuses on the question to what extent are we succeeding in limiting gender violent behaviour with the policies and mechanisms put in place to deal with this violence. Are we confronting the problem in the right way? Will it deter the violence we can anticipate to flow from the masculinist euphoria that might erupt during the 2010 Soccer World Cup?

Thus the talk will explore the policing of gender violence and whether the laws and policies developed to deal with what has been called a scourge are appropriate. Has the Domestic Violence Act itself made a difference to levels of intimate family violence and will it be appropriate for 2010? And has the actual policing of the Act been appropriate and effective?

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Date: Tuesday, 8 December 2009, 12:15 - 13:45 hrs
Venue: Zentrum Gender Studies Universität Basel, Steinengraben 5, Seminarraum 104
Info: stephan.meyer@unibas.ch, +41 61 267 06 44

The series "Violence - Gender perspectives from Ghana and South Africa" is hosted by the Afrika-Komitee, the Zentrum Gender Studies and the Centre of Competence on Africa.