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Rights of Passage In the struggle for women's rights in South Africa, Oxfam partner Vuka Uzithathe is challenging the culture of status quo, and building up a new generation of women entrepreneurs. Vaneetha Moodley, Executive Director of Vuka Uzithathe. Vaneetha Moodley, Executive Director of Vuka Uzithathe. In South Africa, a large percentage of women face a system of entrenched discrimination as they seek to enter the work force. Most women at the community level have no access to economic rights or opportunities, and as a result rank among the poorest in their society. They are ruled by traditional cultural norms that leave them vulnerable to unchecked domestic and public violence. In a country where unemployment and poverty are rife, women are even more vulnerable than their male counterparts, and fight an uphill battle just to stay above the poverty line. Vuka Uzithathe is offering invaluable entrepreneurial skills training to women and men, in the context of strengthening women's position in South African society. The primary focus of Vuka Uzithathe is to provide small business training to men and women, while addressing the impact of culture (domestic, social, economic and political) on female and male entrepreneurs, with a specific focus on the impact of violence on women.