Partnerships and collaborations are critical to fixlocal. All around South Africa, civil society organisations are working on service delivery, accountability, voter education, and advocacy to build better communities, to educate people about their rights, and to hold elected officials accountable.

Here are some of our partners:

The Equality Collective

The Equality Collective is an activist and community lawyering organisation based in the Mbhashe Municipality in the rural Eastern Cape - one of the most remote and poorest areas of South Africa. They build and network power in support of advocacy campaigns for greater socio-economic equity that are based on extensive research and expert analysis.

Their mission is to innovate to advance access to justice, to build the capacity and infrastructure for collective participation and to share research and learning to create a more just and caring society.

Find out more about the Equality Collective.

Abahlali baseMjondolo

Abahlali baseMjondolo are a movement of over 180,000 shack dwellers. They fight for land, for water, sanitation, road access, waste collection, and electricity.

They demand land, housing, dignity, justice, and food sovereignty for all.

Abahlali baseMjondolo is a democratic movement building power from below that works to grow democratic counter-power by building branches and creating spaces for thinking and resisting together.

They resist evictions and repression, organise protests, provide legal support, and engage the media in the struggle against violence, corruption, and injustice. They occupy land to create places for people to live and build communities.

Abahlali baseMjondolo strives to advance occupations into vibrant communes that develop social infrastructure, produce food and work towards other forms of production.

Learn more about Abahlali baseMjondolo.

The Border Rural Committee

The Border Rural Committee (BRCs) is a non-governmental organisation working towards pro-poor rural development in the central and eastern parts of the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. The organisation:

• advocates for enhanced resource flows into the former homelands,
• acts as a project manager in pro-poor development projects, and
• works towards achieving policy impact to extend and replicate the benefits of project successes.

The Border Rural Committee’s work is premised on the understanding that the rights enshrined in South Africa’s Constitution apply to all it’s citizens, including the poor and marginalised, and that realising these rights is fundamental to development.

Find out more about the Border Rural Committee.