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Bid to address flaws in cooperative registration process
Masifundise held a long-awaited virtual meeting with the Department of Environment, Forestry and Fisheries on 8 October to address various obstacles...
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Countdown to the General Meeting of the International Planning Committee for Food Sovereignty: 2 weeks to go!
On the 12 of March 2018, the General Meeting of the International Planning Committee for Food Sovereignty (IPC) will start in Cape Town. The IPC Sovereignty is an autonomous and self-organised global platform of small-scale food producers and rural workers...
Human Rights Day, let the children know Dwesa Cwebe…
“Let the children learn”, is what Christina Kopano, a CLSA leader from Mendwane will be embracing on Human Rights Day, March 21, 2017 when she takes children from Mendwane into the Dwesa Cwebe Marine Protected Area (MPA), in the Eastern Cape. Kopano has dedicated...
Public Hearings on Abalone Poaching
The Standing Committee of the Western Cape Provincial Parliament on Economic Opportunities, Tourism and Agriculture will be hosting public hearings on the impact of abalone poaching on small-scale fishing communities in February 2017. Please find attached the...
In the Media
Bid to address flaws in cooperative registration process
Masifundise held a long-awaited virtual meeting with the Department of Environment, Forestry and Fisheries on 8 October to address various obstacles holding up the cooperative registration process. The meeting was a result of many engagements with small-scale fishing...
Masifundise to go back into the field after months of lock down
After seven months of lock down Masifundise is finally able to physically go back to conducting field work in various inland and coastal small-scale fishing communities. When the lockdown hit South Africa in March, Masifundise was forced to reconfigure its work plan...
Call for action on crippling Eastern Cape water crisis
Fourteen civil society organisations, including Masifundise, hosted a media briefing on 17 September to highlight the water crisis in parts of the country, especially the Eastern Cape. People in water scarce communities are forced to drink contaminated water while...