17 January – Gender

Today we spoke to Naeema Abrahams - Specialist Scientist and chair of the South African Gender-Based Violence and Health Initiative from Medical Research Council’s Gender and Health Research Unit. Naeema told us about the work that they do and also about some of the researches they have conducted. For more information you can contact their offices at 938-0310 or visit their website at www.mrc.ac.za

And we also spoke to Marietta De Vaal – Head of Research Unit from the Commission on Gender Equality. The commission is planning workshops and Gender Dialogues to be conducted throughout the country as a means of reaching out to the community and at the same time change the mind sets of those members of the society that need education in relation to gender equality. For more information you can contact them at 021 426 4080/3 or their Johannesburg office at (011) 403 7182 or visit their website at www.cge.org.za


And our last interview was with Dr Raghavan Charudattan – a US expert on Biocontrol of pest plants and Allan Wood from the South African Society of Plant Pathologists. Dr Charudattan is here as a guest of the SA Society of Plant Pathologists and Stellenbosch University. He will present an address at the Society's conference in Benoni next week.