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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Many thanks to those who contributed to the research and this report:
• The insights and experience of the coordinators, fieldworkers, board members and stakeholder allies from the following organisations:
• Interchurch Local Development Agency
• Witzenberg Rural Development Centre
• Port St Johns Legal Advice Centre
• Kgatelopele Social Development Forum
• Ubuntu Rural Women and Youth Movement
• Mount Fletcher Advice Office
• Sandveld Local Development Agency
• Community Attempt Reaching Empowerment
• The perspectives of the key informants from the wider civil society sector.
• The Social Change Assistance Trust’s director, Joanne Harding, and programme
team, for ongoing direction and support.
• Joanne Harding, Diane Jefthas, Prof Kelley Moult, Seehaam Samaai, Prof Dee
Smythe, Seth Tladi and Sam Waterhouse, for initial inputs on the research
approach.
• Prof Dee Smythe, Diane Jefthas and Joanne Harding, for feedback on early drafts
of this report.
• The Centre for Law and Society at the University of Cape Town.
Melanie Judge1
To be cited as:
Judge, M. 2021. “Finish this Elephant”: Rural Community Organisations’ Strategic Approaches to Addressing Gender-Based Violence. Research Report. Cape Town: Social Change Assistance Trust.
1. Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Public Law and Research Associate of the Centre for Law and Society at the University of Cape Town.