Tuesday, 29 July 2014
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The Grabouw congregation in the Pineview township has a total confessing membership of 1289. The idyllic beauty of the fertile Elgin Valley and surrounding mountains masks the crisis impacting all lives in the area caused by the collapse of the deciduous fruit market five years ago. The out-of-season unemployment rate for the area is 70% (Centre for Rural Legal Studies, 1999). The congregation thus has only ±350 financial active members.