by Dev Ops | Jun 29, 2018 | Civil Society 2018
Human rights lawyer, researcher and community activist Lwazi Mtshiyo hails from the small village of Corana near Mthatha in the Eastern Cape. Perhaps that’s where his love of rural South Africa and other rural parts of the world he has had the privilege of visiting...
by Dev Ops | Jun 29, 2018 | Civil Society 2018
“My work has always been about trying to fight for social justice,” says activist and writer Malebo Sephodi. Her fierceness, proclivity to stand up for what she believes in and grace have earned her the title of “Lioness”, but she describes herself as an African...
by Dev Ops | Jun 29, 2018 | Civil Society 2018
The private sector’s complicity in human rights violations often go unaccounted for in the broader discourse of corruption and human rights. “It is the possibility to challenge this impunity, and make life a little more uncomfortable for the powerful, that I love...
by Dev Ops | Jun 29, 2018 | Civil Society 2018
A second-year microeconomics course sparked senior economist Pamela Mondliwa’s interest in economics. Today she works as a senior economist at the Centre for Competition, Regulation and Economic Development (CCRED) at the University of Johannesburg and is a member of...
by Dev Ops | Jun 29, 2018 | Civil Society 2018
Paul Steyn has walked thousands of kilometres to create awareness and show other amputees, and the general public, the mobility that a prosthetic leg provides an amputee. In the process, he has raised thousands of rands to assist disadvantaged amputees. Optimistic,...
