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FOOD seCUrity
TyInIrA
RuRal Development InItIatIve
Butterworth (also known as Gcuwa) is a mid-sized town situated on the n2 national highway 111 km north of East London in the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa.1 It has a population of 287,780. The majority of people who live there are isiXhosa speaking. Butterworth is the main service area for Mnquma municipality.2
Butterworth’s town area is relatively small, including a small business district of middle- to-high income housing. The central town was exclusively “white” before 1976 but has since been occupied largely by black higher-income groups. Development in Butterworth has followed the line of the n2 and thus resulted in a long, narrow settlement east of town towards Walter Sisulu University (WSU), about 5 km away.3 Tyinira village, Mgobozweni is a small rural village which is 36,9 km away from Butterworth but falls under the Mnquma municipality.
Tyinira rural Development initiative is an emerging LDA that deals with paralegal cases from the communities including ngqamakhwe and Butterworth. They have an income generating project in the form of a poultry project and a food security project.
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1. Mnquma Local Municipality - Overview. (2019.). retrieved October 9, 2019, from https://municipalities.co.za/overview/1007/ mnquma-local-municipality
2. Frith, A. (2019). Census 2011: Main Place: Butterworth. retrieved October 9, 2019, from https://census2011.adrianfrith.com/ place/271161
3. Mnquma Local Municipality - Overview. (2019.). retrieved October 9, 2019, from https://municipalities.co.za/overview/1007/ mnquma-local-municipality
FAst FACTS
NaMe: Tyinira rural Development Initiative
LeD By: Gloria Mabhentsela.
MaiN CHaLLeNGes faCeD By tHe CoMMUNity: domestic violence, unemployment, alcohol and drug abuse
MaiN aCtiVities: Paralegal support; food security
aDDress: Nofikile Village, Ngqamakhwe
CoNtaCt: 071 894 7105
email address: tyiniraruraldev@gmail.com