The workshop itself went very well. Some of the students put on a short play demonstrating how gender-based violence often plays itself out takes place in the surrounding communities and there was good interaction.

One student told the audience about a practise in the Sepedi culture that permitted older men to marry young girls as a additional wives or if their current wife or wives had difficulty conceiving.

There were some alarming stories highlighting how deeply rooted the problem of toxic masculinity and ill-founded cultural and religious practices have been embedded in society.