Women's Shelter counsels men

Speaking at Gender Links discussions, followed by a cyber dialogue for this year's 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence Campaign, Shupiwe Letso, of Women's Shelter said that now that women have been empowered to have a voice it is time to shift the camera lens to the men.

"Most of the cases that we handle are those of transactional and intergeneration sex. Most of the time it is the men who continue with counselling to the end, while the women relax and stop seeing the counsellor," she said of the new trend.  She revealed that the lack of a drop-off centre for men forced them to refer the men to Men's Sector, the organisation that has been formed to bring men to talk together about issues of HIV/AIDS.