Wendy Pekeur is a feminist and gender activist with 20 years of experience in land activism and labour rights. She served as General Secretary of the first women-led trade union in South Africa, Sikhula Sonke, for eight years. She is a Labour Law practitioner and does Arbitration and Conciliation at the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA) for unlawful dismissals of workers across sectors. She serves as a Human Rights Monitor for the South African Human Rights Commission and is Human Rights Defender with the Women’s Legal Centre. She is the Founder of Ubuntu Rural Women and Youth Movement, which is a vehicle

for rural women’s voices to be heard. She is co-founder of Sisterhood Movement, an organisation that builds leadership capacities of girls, and co-founder of the Grassroots Gender-Based Violence Alliance. She has won several international and national awards and recognition for her work. She was co-researcher for the research

done by Ubuntu Rural Women and Youth during Covid-19.