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UWAWAMA – The Manzese Working Women’s Cooperative

UWAWAMA is a socialist and anti-imperialist cooperative of working women, formed in response to the exploitation of working women through debt, financial exclusion and elite-driven models of women’s empowerment that leave structural inequality untouched.
It brings together women engaged in informal and precarious labour, including petty trading, small-scale farming and transport work. It has also built a large and growing alliance of women’s cooperatives.

UWAWAMA’s organising is grounded in collective economic practice and political struggle. It functions not only as mechanisms for survival, but as spaces for collective decision-making, mutual support and the development of working-class leadership among women.

UWAWAMA has also established the Winnie Mandela Cooperative School to build political consciousness and to deepen understanding of capitalism, patriarchy, imperialism and collective alternatives. The School functions as a space for popular political education, leadership development and shared analysis, to strengthen unity, confidence and organisational capacity across the cooperative movement.

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