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Unfortunately the majority of pupils in South Africa don't receive sex education. Especially in schools where teachers are old and often not comfortable talking about sex, teenagers miss the opportunity to get informed and to protect themselves against HIV and Aids. So how do you make teachers and pupils feel comfortable talking about sex?

The Drama for Life (DFL) Mvuso School and Community Education Pilot Project that runs from 9 July 2012 until 1 September 2012 seeks to enhance the capacity of 12 community theatre practitioners and 10 school teachers from 10 selected schools in Soweto to address issues of sex, relationships and HIV and Aids through Applied Theatre and Drama.

After a one-week intensive short course at the DFL programme, hosted by Wits University, the 22 facilitators will lead projects with children in their schools and communities that address above-mentioned topics using the newly learned methodologies of Applied Theatre and Drama. In seven weeks they produce a theatrical performance with the children participating in the project that will be showcased at the annual DFL Sex Actually Festival on 1 September 2012.

The primary objective of the project is to catalyse dialogue, reflection and action around issues of HIV and AIDS infection and risk behaviours and simultaneously building compassionate community responses to the HIV and AIDS pandemic. The project aims to promote personal and interpersonal learning with the intention of bringing about positive behavioural change amongst the youth.

The Training week is running from the 9th - 13th of July, daily starting at 9am at the Goethe Institut. The final performances are scheduled for the 1st of September 10am at Power Park Sport and Recreation Hall in Soweto.

The project is an initiative by Drama for Life. DFL is a special programme at the University of the Witwatersrand that hosts an academic Applied Theatre and Drama programme, as well as several community projects.

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Sat May 25 04:38:23 SAST 2013 ::

Jul 5, 2012

CheeseBoy

it boils down to good parenting and good teaching. Our society is full of se.xual predators.
both parents and teachers, coupled with the media hype around materialism and sex.

Our kids stand no chance. if you love your children you will give them the best in life

private schools and a decent house in a security golf estate.
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Jul 5, 2012

Ubufebe

Ja right, the real problrm is: our teachers think that sex education is a practical class and end up f.ucking the kids. Our teachers need sex education lessons first....
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Jul 5, 2012

DjEp

Damn these idi.iots again. If this department is good at Stats and Analysis they should have predicted Limpopo's crisis way back in 2008. They should have rather studied how many kids go school without books not how many people fall pregnant.

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Jul 5, 2012

SeshegoGuY

49 600??????????????? Tjo!! Tjo!!!

Shocking!!!!!! What about the unreported cases?? Yerrrrrrr...Where r we going as a Country mare..
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Jul 5, 2012

DjEp

The reason they engage in sex is because the Teacher has no teaching material and the kids has no study material and so during Biology studies the Teacher demonstrate the Physiology and Anatomy of man in his office.
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Jul 5, 2012

Bumboklaat

IYO!
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Jul 5, 2012

Bumboklaat

Re tshwanetse re kgalemele do borgman tse di imisang bana! Like bo Mornashit le Goatshit! lebellang thaka tsa lena!
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Jul 5, 2012

Impela

The most difficult thing is to encourage young people to abstain. Their response makes one feel like an old crony (maybe I am). Most frightening though is how the same young people scoff at condoms, both boys and girls.To my horror these were 14 year olds who were already sexually active.
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Jul 5, 2012

Tango

yhoo,yhooo this cartoon is killin g me
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Jul 5, 2012

thathakonke

When I was doing grade 10 in 2002 the SOS team would visit us @ school and give us life orientantion and sex education but I we still had scholars who would fall pregnant. The teachers and councellors can give sex education but the decision is up to the scholar to take it or just throw it away. I still maintain that if you still a scholar you should abstain cause condoms do break or worse part they can use other contraceptives and sleep without using condoms and contract sti/hiv
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