Grab your latest copy if the Inyanda Community News. Read about the the Rural Women’s Assembly’s World Food Day campaign calling for an end to hunger and malnutrition, TCOE’s call for urgent climate resilience measures in response to a severe hailstorm in the Mgwali area in the Eastern Cape. We also interrogate the struggle for water amid governance failure in the Sakhisizwe Municipal area, and how the Rural Legal Centre are helping communities fight evictions and more.
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18 July 2025 We, the Trust for Community Outreach and Education (TCOE), the Commercial, Stevedoring, Agricultural and Allied Workers Union (CSAAWU), the Rural Women’s Assembly (RWA) and the Inyanda National Land Movement (INLM) express steadfast unity with the Socio-Economic Rights Institute (SERI) and all civil society groups dedicated to maintaining the constitutional rights of everyone in South Africa, irrespective of nationality or documentation. Over the past…
Yet another tropical cyclone has hit Southern Africa in recent weeks. Cyclone Chido has caused major destruction in the Indian Ocean island of Mayotte, parts of the Comoros islands and in northern Mozambique and southern Cyclone Chido followed cyclones Kenethe (2018) and Iday (2019), compounding the damages already inflicted on impoverished nations and vulnerable peoples in our neighbouring countries such as Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe: destruction of infrastructure, housing,…
Statement by the Trust for Community Outreach and Education and Inyanda National Land Movement
5 February 2025
This statement reflects the views of the Trust for Community Outreach and Education (TCOE) and thousands of South Africans involved in the movements the TCOE works with. The TCOE is a non-governmental organisation that works with the Inyanda National Land Movement, a land movement that includes mostly landless people in rural areas in five provinces (under traditional authorities in…
The Guardians of Seed, Land, and Life exhibition, held at the historic Castle of Good Hope in Cape Town from 8 to 16 November 2024, was a powerful showcase of women’s vital role in food sovereignty, seed preservation, and sustainable farming practices.
The exhibition was launched by the Trust for Community Outreach and Education (TCOE) and the Rural Women’s Assembly (RWA), two organisations dedicated to empowering rural communities and promoting indigenous agro-ecological practices.
Their…
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The Trust for Community Outreach and Education (TCOE) and the Rural Women’s Assembly prior launching the opening of the exhibition “Guardians of Seed, Land, and Life” at the historic Castle of Good Hope which was on display between November 8 up until November 16, 2024 invited 4 guests into studio for the ‘Review of the Arts’ segment on Radio 786.
This impactful exhibition highlights the vital role of women as seed…
On the 11th of November, during the Guardians of Seed, Land and Life Exhibition, women across Africa gathered to voice their concerns over seed policy and its impact on our land, water, and food systems.
The Trust for Community Outreach and Education (TCOE) and the Southern Africa Rural Women’s Assembly (RWA) hosted a powerful workshop at the Koena Art Institute – Castle of Good Hope. This gathering focused on advocacy efforts to protect our vital resources through agroecology, ensuring a…
Genadendal, Western Cape – The vibrant Day of Organic Trade and Celebration, held at the historic Werf in Genadendal on October 26, 2024, successfully followed up on the impactful World Food Day webinar that took place on 16 October 2024.
Organised by the Rural Women’s Assembly and The Trust for Community Outreach and Education (TCOE), the event celebrated the crucial role of rural women and small-scale farmers in advancing sustainable food systems and food sovereignty.
[LEFT: Poster…
[RIGHT Mawubuye Meeting 2023
The process of facilitating the building of a vibrant voice of the rural and urban impoverished and underdeveloped by TCOE was as a result of thought through processes and thorough contextual analysis and learning from other practises and from own experiences.
Core to this strategy was enabling the affected poor to realise their plight, champion and lead their struggles.
This approach also involves building from below, different sectors that includes,…
The Trust for Community Outreach and Education (TCOE), the Rural Women’s Assembly in South Africa together with the Mopani Farmers Association in Limpopo, are deeply disturbed by reports of serious land rights violations of smallholder producers in some areas in Limpopo. During a visit in April 2024, we met with affected smallholders who had either been evicted or were in the process of being evicted from their land in the Greater Ba-Phalaborwa Local Municipality.
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