This group attended the TWM Foundation’s outreach campaign against GBVF, domestic violence, substance abuse and corruption at Meerdam Farm on the Bottelary Road.Foto:


The TWM Foundation, in collaboration with Kraaifontein police, Meerdam Farm Lapa & Lawn and the Mustadafin Foundation, recently hosted an outreach campaign against gender-based violence and femicide (GBVF), domestic violence, substance abuse and corruption.

Delegates from the greater Stellenbosch area, including farm workers, community members, representatives of NPOs and staff of several government departments attended the gathering. Special guest speakers at the event where project champion Rev Tanelle Welff-Dixon, who heads the TWM Foundation, and WO Louise Strydom, social-crime prevention and gender-based violence coordinator at Kraaifontein police.

Welff-Dixon spoke about her Not In My Town campaign, a project in the fight against gender-based and domestic violence as well as substance abuse and corruption.

Strydom boasts more than 20 years’ experience in the domestic-violence space and commented on the unusually high incidences of domestic violence in the Kraaifontein area, which is one of the highest figures in the country.

Welff-Dixon encouraged the reporting of gender and domestic violence cases to the police, and highlighted the high incidences of alcoholism in the farmworking community as a result of the banned dop system, which reportedly is still being practised at some farms in the country.

Staff of De Novo Treatment Centre, the Department of Correctional Services and the Department of Social Development spoke about their many challenges and how families needed to be encouraged to support their children as they believed family reunification was a better option than institutionalisation of youth at risk, especially as a result of substance abuse, which has become quite common.

The event ended with a lunch, after which delegates mingled and networked.

  • To support the fight against GBVF and the Not In My Town campaign, contact Rev Welff-Dixon on info@twmfoundation.org.za

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