The Gender Studies discipline invites you to enrol into our dynamic post-graduate programmes which have been designed to produce skilled practitioners who can attend to the needs of gender, governance and development in South Africa and comparable societies. The issue of gender has become increasingly pertinent to the critical issues of democracy building and social justice in the African continent. A number of academic and non-academic institutions dealing with the issue of gender envision that through the promotion of gender justice and human rights, they will assist in alleviating poverty amongst men and women and build a culture of tolerance, diversity and democracy.