https://www.salo.org.za/staff-member/Recent content in Our people on Southern African Liaison OfficeHugo -- gohugo.ioen-zaTue, 11 Sep 2018 07:08:36 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/staff-member/precious-saohatse/Wed, 25 Apr 2018 15:05:23 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/staff-member/precious-saohatse/Precious is a recent graduate of the University of Cape Town. She received a Bachelor of Social sciences majoring in International Relations and Industrial Sociology. She joined SALO in November 2017 as an Intern. Besides working at SALO she is also a Parliamentary Monitor at the Parliamentary Monitoring Group.https://www.salo.org.za/staff-member/daisy-mbutho/Thu, 02 Nov 2017 20:58:18 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/staff-member/daisy-mbutho/Daisy Mbutho joined SALO’s Pretoria office as a volunteer in October 2017. She holds a BA (Adv) in Political Studies from the University of Manitoba in Canada. Her areas of interest include peace and security, diplomacy and peacebuilding in Africa and the world.https://www.salo.org.za/staff-member/milisuthando-milisa-mbete/Wed, 17 May 2017 10:41:26 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/staff-member/milisuthando-milisa-mbete/Milis’uthando (Milisa) Mbete completed her BA degree in International Relations and Political Science atthe University of Pretoria. She is currently studying towards her BA Honours degree in International Politics from the University of South Africa. She joined the SALO team as a volunteer before becoming an intern.https://www.salo.org.za/staff-member/jessey-matlou/Tue, 16 May 2017 12:32:37 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/staff-member/jessey-matlou/Jessey is a research and development officerbased in the Pretoria office. She holds a BA degree in Media Studies and Psychology from Wits University. Her other subjects included Politics, Research and Design, Psychometrics which add to her abilities as an intern at SALO.https://www.salo.org.za/staff-member/athenkosi-thoba/Wed, 26 Nov 2014 14:07:49 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/staff-member/athenkosi-thoba/Athenkosi Thoba is a Research Intern at SALO. He joined SALO in November 2013. He is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in International Relations at the University of Western Cape. He holds an Honours degree in International Relations and a Bachelor of Social Science degree with IR and Industrial Sociology as his majors, from UCT.https://www.salo.org.za/staff-member/richard-calland/Tue, 25 Nov 2014 17:21:55 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/staff-member/richard-calland/Richard Calland is Associate Professor in the Public Law Department at the University of Cape Town. He teaches constitutional and human rights law, and some administrative law. He specializes in the law and practice of the right to access of information and whistle-blowing protection; in administrative justice; in public ethics; and in constitutional design – largely derived from his work as programme manager of the Political Information & Monitoring Service at Idasa (www.https://www.salo.org.za/staff-member/h-e-ambassador-sten-rylander/Tue, 25 Nov 2014 17:19:21 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/staff-member/h-e-ambassador-sten-rylander/H.E. Ambassador Sten Rylander started his professional career at the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs in 1970. For nine years (1970-79), he held various positions, including postings at the Nordic Office of the World Bank in Washington, DC from 1972-1974, and at the Swedish OECD-delegation in Paris, from 1974-1976.https://www.salo.org.za/staff-member/thoko-matshe/Tue, 25 Nov 2014 17:17:46 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/staff-member/thoko-matshe/Thoko Matshe is a human rights activist with over twenty five years experience in development work, and over fifteen years in leadership of civil society organizations and several women’s organizations in South Africa, the UK and Zimbabwe. She has extensive knowledge of the women’s movement in Africa.https://www.salo.org.za/staff-member/horst-kleinschmidt/Tue, 25 Nov 2014 17:17:12 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/staff-member/horst-kleinschmidt/Horst Kleinschmidt is an anti-apartheid and human rights activist. He was Vice President of the National Union of South African Students (1969) and Assistant to Ds. Beyers Naude of the South African Christian Institute (1975). He was detained and charged under various apartheid laws and eventually forced into exile.https://www.salo.org.za/staff-member/pregs-govender/Tue, 25 Nov 2014 17:03:17 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/staff-member/pregs-govender/Pregs Govender is a well known feminist activist and independent writer. Author of “Love and Courage”; she was an ANC MP: National Assembly (South Africa’s first democratic elections in 1994) who Pioneered South Africa’s Women’s Budget (Government’s 1998-1999 National Budget). An activist against Apartheid since 1974, Pregs Govender taught English in Durban, at schools and at university, before joining the trade union movement in the 80’s.https://www.salo.org.za/staff-member/venitia-govender/Tue, 25 Nov 2014 15:47:44 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/staff-member/venitia-govender/Venitia Govender is a founder member of SALO. She comes from a legal academic background (BA LLB), is a former director of a human rights NGO in SA – the Detainees Parents Support Committee thereafter the Human Rights Committee, and was a public servant post-94 in the Ministry of Safety and Security.https://www.salo.org.za/staff-member/inger-smith/Tue, 25 Nov 2014 15:46:58 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/staff-member/inger-smith/Inger Smith has been working as a communications and media consultant for SALO since March 2007. Her work has included, designing the SALO logo and letterhead and other media and print material, updating the SALO website as well as filming and editing a number of DVDs which can be found here.https://www.salo.org.za/staff-member/virginia-brookes/Tue, 25 Nov 2014 15:46:08 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/staff-member/virginia-brookes/Virginia Brookes is SALO’s finance manager. She joined the Community Law Centre as the Financial Manager in April 2001, prior to that she worked in UWC’s Finance Department for two years. Virginia completed her B Com (Hons) at the University of the Western Cape in 2003.https://www.salo.org.za/staff-member/judith-todd-2/Tue, 25 Nov 2014 15:45:25 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/staff-member/judith-todd-2/Judith Todd is the SALO representative in Zimbabwe. Briefly jailed and detained by Rhodesia’s Ian Smith regime in 1972, was then exiled for nearly eight years. She returned to Zimbabwe in 1980 and became director of the Zimbabwe Project, a non-governmental organisation dedicated to the welfare of war veterans.https://www.salo.org.za/staff-member/ntsako-kevin-mogobe/Tue, 25 Nov 2014 15:42:45 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/staff-member/ntsako-kevin-mogobe/Ntsako Kevin Mogobe is a Youth and Community Outreach Consultant for SALO. A former student and current youth activist since the age of 15, he matriculated in 2008. Ntsako was elected COSAS Tshwane Regional Chairperson during the year 2008 and later promoted/elected as its Gauteng Provincial Chairperson for two consecutive terms.https://www.salo.org.za/staff-member/marissa-van-rensburg/Tue, 25 Nov 2014 15:39:42 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/staff-member/marissa-van-rensburg/Marissa joined SALO in 2013 as an intern during her final year of study at UCT, becoming full-time after graduating with a BA in Political Science and Media Studies. She is currently the Deputy Manager of Projects and Stakeholder Engagement. Marissa is currently serving as the elected Deputy Secretary of the ANC Youth League in the Western Cape, and previously served as a South African Students Congress representative on the Students Representative Council of UCT.https://www.salo.org.za/staff-member/tawanda-sachikonye/Tue, 25 Nov 2014 15:38:36 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/staff-member/tawanda-sachikonye/Tawanda Sachikonye is a SALO researcher. Tawanda joined SALO in 2010. He has a Master’s degree fromRhodes University’s Department of Political and International Studies. His areas of interest include International Relations; Development Studies; Political theory; Gender issues and African economics amongst others.https://www.salo.org.za/staff-member/rebone-tau/Tue, 25 Nov 2014 15:37:55 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/staff-member/rebone-tau/Rebone Tau has been with SALO since 2007. She is a Senior Associate, responsibilities include fundraising, liaison with partners, filmmaking, public speaking. She has written a short book entitled “Is there Democracy in Swaziland” which appears in our publications section. She is currently serving in the National Task Team of the ANCYL and the ANC Swazi Task Teamhttps://www.salo.org.za/staff-member/molly-dhlamini/Tue, 25 Nov 2014 15:37:03 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/staff-member/molly-dhlamini/Molly Dhlamini is a Senior Associate at SALO. She joined SALO in 2013. She had a brief stint working as the stakeholder engagement coordinator in the Mineral Resources Ministry. For almost a decade, she worked for the National Union Of Mineworkers Union, first as the International Relations Coordinator and later as the adviser to Presidency.https://www.salo.org.za/staff-member/joan-brickhill-2/Tue, 25 Nov 2014 15:35:59 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/staff-member/joan-brickhill-2/Joan Brickhillwas a journalist, broadcaster and political activist in Southern Africa over three decades. Among others she worked for various African publications, Radio Freedom and the ANC Information Department in Lusaka, the BBC World Service/African Service, and the Zimbabwe and SA Broadcasting Corporations.https://www.salo.org.za/staff-member/dr-showers-mawowa/Tue, 25 Nov 2014 15:35:19 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/staff-member/dr-showers-mawowa/Dr Showers Mawowa is SALO’s Deputy Director, based in the Pretoria Office. He is a member of the International Experts Panel (IEP) at the Open Government Partnership (OGP), Independent Reporting Mechanism (IRM). Showers holds a Ph.D in Development Studies (2013) and Masters in Economic History (2007) both from the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) and is an alumnus of the African Program on Rethinking Development Economics (APORDE).https://www.salo.org.za/staff-member/francisca-mdleleni/Tue, 25 Nov 2014 15:34:32 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/staff-member/francisca-mdleleni/Francisca Mdleleni is SALO’s Operations Manager. Kenyan born and educated, but South African by marriage and residence, she joined SALO in June 2008. Over the past 9 years SALO has been involved in a range of policy dialogue, community activism and research initiatives in the peace and human security sectors.https://www.salo.org.za/staff-member/reynaud-daniels/Tue, 25 Nov 2014 15:29:45 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/staff-member/reynaud-daniels/Reynaud Daniels is an attorney of the High Court. He obtained his BA degree from UCT, his LLB degree from UWC and his LLM degree in International Human Rights Law from Northwestern University (Chicago, IL) with honors. He is a Director at Cheadle Thompson & Haysom Inc, a leading labour law firm.https://www.salo.org.za/staff-member/joyce-sikhakhane-rankin/Tue, 25 Nov 2014 15:29:15 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/staff-member/joyce-sikhakhane-rankin/Joyce Sikhakhane-Rankin holds a BSc Honours degree from the Open University in the U.K. and has over 40 years of experience as a journalist, playwright and author. She had started her career at The World Newspaper, Drum Magazine, The Sunday Post, and the Rand Daily Mail, covering the political realities of the country.https://www.salo.org.za/staff-member/joan-brickhill/Tue, 25 Nov 2014 15:28:32 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/staff-member/joan-brickhill/Joan Brickhill was a journalist, broadcaster and political activist in Southern Africa over three decades. Among others she worked for various African publications, Radio Freedom and the ANC Information Department in Lusaka, the BBC World Service/African Service, and the Zimbabwe and SA Broadcasting Corporations.https://www.salo.org.za/staff-member/lucian-segami/Tue, 25 Nov 2014 15:27:40 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/staff-member/lucian-segami/Lucian Segami is a former student activist at UCT and in the Western Cape active in ANC alliance structures. He worked towards the launch of several solidarity movements in South Africa including Western Sahara and Zimbabwe, promoting popular South African support of struggles for democracy.https://www.salo.org.za/staff-member/judith-todd/Tue, 25 Nov 2014 15:26:55 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/staff-member/judith-todd/Judith Todd is the SALO representative in Zimbabwe. Briefly jailed and detained by Rhodesia’s Ian Smith regime in 1972, she was then exiled for nearly eight years. She returned to Zimbabwe in 1980 and became director of the Zimbabwe Project, a non-governmental organisation dedicated to the welfare of war veterans.https://www.salo.org.za/staff-member/professor-brian-raftopoulos/Tue, 25 Nov 2014 15:26:19 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/staff-member/professor-brian-raftopoulos/Professor Brian Raftopoulos is a leading Zimbabwean scholar and activist. Formally an Associate Professor of Development Studies at the University of Zimbabwe, he moved to Cape Town at the end of March 2006 and is currently the Director of Research and Advocacy in the Solidarity Peace Trust, an NGO dealing with human rights issues in Zimbabwe.https://www.salo.org.za/staff-member/professor-rob-moore/Tue, 25 Nov 2014 15:25:48 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/staff-member/professor-rob-moore/Professor Rob Moore is Deputy Vice Chancellor (Partnerships and Advancement) at the University of the Witwatersrand (‘Wits’) in Johannesburg. He joined Wits in 2006 as Director of Strategic Planning and, in 2007, he was appointed as Deputy Vice Chancellor (Advancement & Partnerships).https://www.salo.org.za/staff-member/charmaine-williamson/Tue, 25 Nov 2014 15:25:13 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/staff-member/charmaine-williamson/Charmaine Williamson is currently doing a Doctorate in the strategic decision- making processes of Official Development Assistance (ODA) within South Africa and with a view to South Africa’s potential ODA engagements on the continent. She has worked intensively in the ODA field, with particular specialisation in the field of European Union and South African partnerships.https://www.salo.org.za/staff-member/prof-chris-landsberg/Tue, 25 Nov 2014 15:24:33 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/staff-member/prof-chris-landsberg/Prof Chris Landsberg holds a BA Honours from RAU (now UJ); MA from Rhodes University; and M. Phil and D. Phil degrees from Oxford. In 1999-2000, he was a Hamburg Fellow at Stanford University in California. He previously lectured at the University of the Witwatersrand, and is a guest lecturer at the Diplomatic Academy of the South African Department of International Relations and Co-operation (DIRCO), formerly the Department of Foreign Affairs.https://www.salo.org.za/staff-member/prince-mbekwa/Tue, 25 Nov 2014 15:22:59 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/staff-member/prince-mbekwa/Prince Mbekwa has been a team leader and manager both at Knowledge Tree Inc. and at the Free Software Innovation Unit (University of the Western Cape). Prince has worked at UNESCO as the Assistant Program Specialist. Prince received his education at Border Technikon, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University and at Scrum Sense.https://www.salo.org.za/staff-member/richard-smith/Tue, 25 Nov 2014 15:22:14 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/staff-member/richard-smith/Richard Melville Smith is a peace and human security strategist from South Africa. With over twenty-five years of experience his approach to process design and facilitation, mediation, dialogue and transformative peace leadership, is informed by a background in activism, working with student, youth, women and workers organisations.https://www.salo.org.za/staff-member/shaista-kazee/Tue, 25 Nov 2014 15:21:32 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/staff-member/shaista-kazee/Sha’ista Kazee is an attorney practicing in constitutional and administrative law at Bowman Gilfillan Inc. Sha’ista has advised a range of clients, including organs of state, private entities and regulatory bodies in judicial review and other proceedings in the High Court, Supreme Court of Appeal and the Constitutional Court.https://www.salo.org.za/staff-member/the-right-reverend-rubin-phillip/Tue, 25 Nov 2014 15:07:05 +0200https://www.salo.org.za/staff-member/the-right-reverend-rubin-phillip/The Right Reverend Rubin Phillip (b. 1948) is bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Natal and Dean of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa. The great-grandchild of indentured labourers, Bishop Rubin Phillip is the first South African of colour to hold the position of Bishop of Natal.