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Rural women to report human rights violations against them using mobile phones

Rural women in KwaZulu Natal will be using mobile phones to report on violations of their human rights. The UmNyango Project, which is implementing this initiative, was established by Fahamu, a pan African organisation based in Cape Town, Nairobi, Dakar and Oxford.

Rural Women’s Movement By Sizani Ngubane

For almost all the members of the South Africa’s Rural Women’s Movement (RWM), land offers a means of alleviating poverty, generating income, and paying for their children's education. In the research I conducted in 1998, uses of land identified by women included vegetable gardens (for subsistence and income generating), grazing, infrastructure (roads, water, electricity), residential, and growing thatching grass, grass for making mats, etc.