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- There are a number of high-profile independent social movements in South Africa. The majority have a particular focus on the housing crisis in the urban areas but others range from focusing on HIV/AIDS, working conditions, unemployment, access to service delivery and issues of democracy, transparency and accountability, corruption, poverty, crime, xenophobia, economy, drought, racism, sexism, health conditions etc... This is a partial list of social movements in South Africa:
* Abahlali baseMjondolo, the shackdwellers movement based in KwaZulu-Natal and the Western Cape
* Equal Education based in the Western Cape and Gauteng
* InkuluFreeHeid, based in Gauteng with chapters elsewhere in the country.
* The Landless People's Movement, based in Gauteng
* The Mandela Park Backyarders based in the Western Cape
* The Poor People's Alliance, a national alliance of grassroots movements
* SANARA, the South African National Resistance Army, a 'defend democracy' organization
* Reclaim The City, a social movement fighting for land and housing in Cape Town's inner-city and wealthy suburbs
* Sikhula Sonke women's farmworkers union based in the Western Cape
* The Social Justice Coalition based in the Western Cape
* The South African Unemployed Peoples' Movement based in Durban, KZN and in Grahamstown in the Eastern Cape
* The Treatment Action Campaign, based in the Western Cape but with branches elsewhere in the country
* The Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign, based in the Western Cape (en)
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- There are a number of high-profile independent social movements in South Africa. The majority have a particular focus on the housing crisis in the urban areas but others range from focusing on HIV/AIDS, working conditions, unemployment, access to service delivery and issues of democracy, transparency and accountability, corruption, poverty, crime, xenophobia, economy, drought, racism, sexism, health conditions etc... This is a partial list of social movements in South Africa: (en)
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