Today, we feature Mbuyiselo Botha, who is a Gender Activist and dedicated father. He has been called a lone voice in the wilderness for tirelessly campaigning for Gender Equality. He feels passionately, that men should shoulder the responsibility of creating a safe and equal society for women and travels the length and breath of South Africa holding workshops challenging cultural notions about what it means to be a man. Mbuyiselo Botha’s upbringing was distressingly dysfunctional in many ways. He grew up under severely impoveriched conditions and did not know the paternity of his own father. Today he has found some measure of healing by striving to be a fully attentive and loving dad to his own children. He says children have an innate wisdom, and often teach us how to walk our talk. His story is a powerful lesson of letting go of the past hurts. Shot during the Sharpville rent boycott in the mid eightees Mbuyiselo became partially paralysed overnight. Millions of South African children grow up without their fathers, a situation that has a profound impact on their lives. But a new initiative that encourages men to care for Mbuyiselo’s fatherlessness has left an indelible mark on his life, and he acknowledges that it was often difficult for him as a young man without a male role model. But it also left him with a fierce determination to become the father he dreamed of for his own children.