Ubuntu Rural Womxn & Youth Movement

LED BY: Wendy Pekeur

MAIN CHALLENGES FACED BY THE COMMUNITY: gender-based violence, unemployment, alcohol and drug abuse.

MAIN ACTIVITIES: Legal advice office; labour-related advice and assistance; skills development for youth; gender-based violence interventions

Ubuntu RWYM started as a response to the evictions on state-owned farms in the Stellenbosch area. The organisation has grown and works mainly in the Boland farming region of the Western Cape

Their main activities during 2020 focussed on 

• food relief for vulnerable communities
• helping the unemployed to access the R350 Covid relief grants
• access to water for evicted communities and farm dwellers without running water/access to clean drinkable water
• monitoring TERS applications 
• unfair dismissals and labour related matters
• capacity building workshops on land rights and GBV
• protest action to support evictees and to promote an end to GBV