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ASSOCIATION FOR RURAL ADVANCEMENT
Established in 1979,
AFRA is a land rights advocacy NGO working to support marginalised black rural people, with a focus on farm dwellers. We work intensively with communities in and around the uMgungundlovu District Municipality in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, and more extensively with CBO’s and rural formations across the province, and with partners nationally in impact litigation.
AFRA’s vision is of an inclusive, gender equitable society where rights are valued, realised and protected, essential services are delivered, livelihoods are improved, and land tenure is secured.
Our Development Goal is to improve the living conditions of farm dwellers through securing land tenure and access to services and thus promoting improved and sustainable livelihoods.
AFRA seeks to achieve this Goal through:
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Monitoring and intervening in rights abuses on farms;
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Supporting farm dweller mobilisation
and organisation, and in particular
the mobilising and organising of
women on farms;
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Supporting farm dweller mobilisation
and organisation, and in particular
the mobilising and organising of
women on farms;
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Promoting access to secure tenure on
farms through the resolution labour
tenant claims and through
innovations such as land donations;
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Monitoring and supporting basic
service delivery by municipalities
on farms;
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Promoting sustainable land use and
livelihoods through agro-ecology and
climate-smart agriculture, and;
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Impact litigation to assist with
broadening jurisprudence relating to
the realisation of Constitutional
rights, and to hold Government to
account for its Constitutional
obligations;
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AFRA is a reflective and learning organisation that is able to adaptto evolving contexts and the changing needs of our constituencies. |
