The article reflects on feminist movement building in Southern Africa with a specific focus on leadership in rural areas and land struggles. It discusses the experience of the Rural Women's Assembly (RWA). RWA is a self-organised grassroots movement that since its launch in 2009, has located its leadership formation in local struggles, local organising and mobilisi...

In the first ten years after the transition to democracy in 1994 over one million farmworkers, farm dwellers and labour tenants were displaced and evicted from white commercial farms across South Africa. This briefing focuses on the violence of farm evictions and its impact on farmworker women in South Africa. It views these forced removals as a violent dislocation...