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The effect of absent fathers on today's youth.

 Disclaimer!! This blog is my personal reflection report from a conference at UJ COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT DFC AND APB!! As the statistics of gender-based violence increase in South Africa, many questions tend to rise beyond that as to what could be the influence behind all this terror? Everyday our sisters and mothers are being raped and killed out there at the costs of finding men behind this.  The question that touched me most was is it because of the absent father on the boy child? It's when I came to realise that many males make it a reason that they do all their abusive stuff because they didn't grow with their fathers or didn't have a father figure. On my perspective view, yes, the father's absence can drive a boy child to be reckless, a boy needs a father who is a man to tach how to be one. Growing up as a boy you encounter so many challenges of which some needs someone who have been there to guide you how to do it. As men, the points like this are not to make us...
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Misnformation fuels Covid-19 vaccine conspiracy theories

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The conspiracy theories against Covid-19 vaccines are generating all over social media with high levels of uncertainty, thus leave many citizens reluctant on whether to vaccinate or not. This fear bought up by misinformation trending on social media with a belief that these vaccines could kill people or cause harmful side effects, mainly these conspiracies are brought by people who get false information from  those who did not get vaccinated. One wrong word can change many people's thinking about something, hence people like to save their societies, once they see an important or menace information, they typically make an alert and warn others without checking whether the information they are spreading is legit or not, nor doing some research, thus reflect to an effective misinformation.  All the reluctance that the South African citizens are showing regarding the vaccines, make it harder for the country to achieve herd immunity as it only pose a slow uptake of the vaccine...
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