It is time for South African men to be better human beings, change their violent ways, and learn to coexist with women and children. Men from across the country gathered for the annual summit to speak about their challenges, hear each other out, confront their traumas and build one another.
The EmpowaMen Summit is dubbed as a safe space for men. Annually, they get an opportunity to hold each other accountable, motivate each other, and deal with internal traumas. Those at the summit believe it can no longer be business as usual.
Media personality Nimrod Nkosi says, When you hear that there is a six-year-old recently in Orlando that was raped and murdered by a man, you know the disgust that we feel. So, we are here to talk about this situation and not to put a bandage over it or make it palatable when you talk about it, to go against it."
Said one of the attendees, "You look at criminality in general, you look at the number of men in prison, and you can see that somewhere along the line, there is a missing link, so this event of this magnitude is attempting to close the gap so that men can start to be honest with themselves to say to say I need help, adds a d elegate Mohlodi Montle.
In recent years, mans reputation has not been a good one. First-quarter crime statistics show that some 300 children and more than 900 women were murdered. Rapes also rose to more than 9000.
