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Abongile Davani
Co-founder, Siyakholwa Reading and Writing Drop-in Centre
Developing the agency of young women and children, and the LGBTIQPA+ community; developing literacy and working toward the inclusion of youth in the provincial economy of the Eastern Cape.
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Aldridge Munyoro
Ph.D. candidate, University of the Witwatersrand
Building an inclusive society where people living at the far margins of society can equally participate and benefit from the social and economic pipeline.
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Alexandra Fitzgerald
Director of legal affairs, Mothers 2 Mothers (m2m)
Serving as the legal director of Mothers 2 Mothers, an organization dedicated to delivering integrated primary health care services to women, children, adolescents and entire families by employing women living with HIV as community health workers.
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Allison Corkery
Director of strategy and learning, Center for Economic and Social Rights (CESR)
Working with activists around the world to translate human rights norms into tools for collective analysis and action on inequalities.
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Amy Green
Editor, Health-e News Service
Reflecting socially just media practices and content in mainstream media and lifting marginalized voices that are usually inaccessible to traditional media houses.
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Andile Mthombeni
Project manager, Plus 94 Research
Assisting the South African National Aids Council as a trustees member. Also represented students in the Ministerial Technical Task Team for Sexual & Gender-Based Violence in Institutions of Higher Learning.
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Anele Ntombikayise Sigcau
Pharmacist, Department of Health, South Africa
Addressing inequities in access to medication in a rural community by ensuring availability and ways of ensuring adherence to treatment as a way of eradicating the disease burden.
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Asanda-Jonas Benya
Senior lecturer, University of Cape Town
Teaching sociology and convening the Critical Labour stream at the University of Cape Town; and researching diverse ways in which women’s lives and livelihoods around sites of extraction across southern Africa are impacted by mines and mining.
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Atholl Kleinhans
Lecturer, Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University
Advocating for equal access to health care for LGBTIQ+ communities.
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Axolile Notywala
Co-founder, Movement for Collective Action and Racial Equity (Movement for CARE)
Building Movement for CARE, a municipalist movement focused on meaningful local participatory governance and active citizenship, and cultivating solidarity among marginalized communities.
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Azeeza Rangunwala
Africa regional coordinator, groundWork
Working with a focus on climate change and health as an intersectional feminist (also known as the Scientivist).
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Bayanda Ndumiso
Political advocacy coordinator, Triangle Project
Advancing the civil, political and electoral participation of LGBTQI+ people in local and national decision-making processes.
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Bells Twani
Member, Intlungu YaseMatyotyombeni Movement
Fostering a movement for the development of youth in communities; mobilizing community and youth to address policy around land and land occupation.
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Bernard Mutsago
Nutritionist, public health researcher and activist, South African Medical Association
Advocating for a South Africa where primary health care takes center stage and all South Africans have access to affordable, equitable, high-quality health care.
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Bertha Chiguvare
Program officer, Lawyers for Human Hights; board member, Vumbanani for Peacebuilding
Working as a researcher, child protection specialist and program manager to promote community development and human rights activism.
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Bibi-Aisha Wadvalla
Managing editor, Health-e News Service
Bridging the health information divide through journalism that helps individuals make informed health choices and advances health equity.
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Bongiwe Lusizi
Founding director, Creative Academy
Promoting African bow music as well as arts, crafts, dance, poetry, creative writing and other creative activities to build a progressive heritage movement.
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Bulela Vava
Interim national president, Public Oral Health Forum
Building an activist oral health workforce, with a focus on grassroots community and peer-to-peer engagement to realize, preserve and protect society’s right to quality oral health services.
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Busisiwe Dlamini
Dialogue practitioner
Creating sustainable models for social justice work and cross-sectoral collaboration, and facilitating dialogues focused on race, social justice and transformation.
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Carina Truyts
Lecturer in social anthropology, Sol Plaatje University
Developing new anthropology courses and a program, based on her master’s research that drew on public health, developmental origins of health and disease, and epigenetic findings.
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Chaleen Arendse
Co-director, USAWA Learning and Healing
Advancing the rights and improving the lives of young people and women living on farms, through experiential knowledge after living on a farm herself. Addressing social injustices and inequalities through a human rights context.
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Christopher John
Social responsibility and funding officer, AFDA (The School of Creative Economies)
Developing community projects and funding to assist talented people from disadvantaged communities to access education in the creative industries, and helping in grassroots training and economic development in South Africa and Zimbabwe.
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Cincinitia Lebjane
Founder and director, Resoketswe Lebjane Foundation
Advocating for gender equality and sexual reproductive health rights, as a change driver targeting rural areas in particular.
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Constance Mogale
National coordinator, Rural Democracy Trust
Leading organizational campaigns for land rights, mining-affected communities and livelihoods in South Africa.
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Cyan Brown
Founder, TuksRes Women in Leadership Academy; Stanford Biodesign Fellow, Stanford University; founder, Women Leaders Planetary Health South Africa
Working at the intersection of health, sustainability and innovation to catalyze change in South Africa.
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Danai Mupotsa
Senior lecturer, University of the Witwatersrand
Serving as a senior lecturer in African literature at the University of the Witwatersrand. Also, a feminist teacher, researcher and published poet.
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Dorah Marema
Portfolio head for municipal sustainability, South African Local Government Association (SALGA)
Leading sustainability efforts with a range of stakeholders in sectors that include small-scale agriculture, environment, climate change, renewable energy, gender and land rights at local, national and international levels.
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Duduzile (Dudu) Dlamini
Advocacy manager, Sex Workers Education and Advocacy Task Force
Fighting for the decriminalization of sex work. As well as advocating for sex workers, she is an international ambassador of Coalition of Children Affected by AIDS.
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Dylan Valley
Filmmaker and educator, University of Cape Town
Creating visual stories that imagine a world free of discrimination.
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Eric Motau
Country director, REPSSI (The Regional Psychosocial Support Initiatives)
Advocating for access to community-based mental health care and treatment services in underserved communities. Addressing bottlenecks in the health system with design strategies that enhance service delivery.
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Erna van der Westhuizen
Impact and learning manager, Shonaquip Social Enterprise
Leading efforts to build ecosystems for inclusion for people with disabilities, their families and service providers.
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Gabriella Razzano
Executive director, OpenUp
Working on issues of digital inequalities in Africa, and empowering people and governments through data, technology, and innovation.
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Ganzamungu Zihindula
Founder, Healthy Rural Societies
Consultant at WHO on research and policy to monitor tobacco industries in Africa. Head of research and professor of public health at Rural Health University in Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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Harsha Somaroo
Public health medicine specialist, Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital; lecturer, University of the Witwatersrand
Training future public health medicine specialists and working to improve health care and health equity. Advocating for improved clinical and corporate governance, and overall health systems strengthening.
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Haseena Majid
Public health project consultant, USAWA - Equitable Solutions for Health & Education
Public private partnership facilitator for equitable access to primary health services. Affiliated to the uMgungundlovu District Municipality for civil society responses to HIV/AIDS and Gender-Based Violence and Femicide (GBVF).
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Innocentia Mgijima
Human rights lawyer, Africa Albinism Network; Ph.D. candidate, University of Witswatersrand
Advocating for the rights of persons with disabilities in Africa.
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Ivana Merckel
Community coordinator
Promoting the need for accessible, comprehensive and holistic health education with community participation.
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Joel Modiri
Head of the department of jurisprudence and associate professor, University of Pretoria
Teaching critical race theory to deliver graduates who are historically and politically literate and engaged with inequality and injustice.
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Judiac Ranape
Comprehensive care nurse and nurse trainer, Department of Health, South Africa
Advocating within civil society organizations for improved health of marginalized communities.
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Kanyisa Booi
Founder and campaign manager, Matriarch and Sons
Creating and executing health communications campaigns and strategies that are engaging by employing a fusion of pop culture and politics.
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Kelly-Eve Koopman
Director and co-creator, Coloured Mentality
Driving social transformation through Coloured Mentality, a community media platform that has become a unique interactive storytelling space for South Africa's Colored communities.
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Kentse Radebe
Project manager, Systems Innovation, Bertha Centre for Social Innovation & Entrepreneurship
Identifying the processes and levers that reduce social stratification and lead to social innovation and transformation.
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Khanyo Ntokozo Ngcobo
Specialist psychiatrist and honorary lecturer, University of KwaZulu-Natal
Undertaking dementia clinical care and research aimed at improving service provision in a local context. Exploring and promoting locally appropriate and person-centered dementia care.
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Khayelihle "Khaya" Sithole
Accountant, academic, activist and independent analyst
Working with civil society and advocacy organizations on matters relating to youth development, education, land reform and economic justice as a chartered accountant, writer and academician.
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Khululwa Jampo
Site manager, Mother Mentor, Enable
Providing support, counseling and basic health education to pregnant women, with a focus on chronic treatment adherence mostly related to HIV and AIDS.
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Khwezi Mabasa
Senior researcher, Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection (MISTRA)
Serving as a senior researcher at the Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection (MISTRA) and a part-time lecturer at the University of Pretoria.
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Kirsty Bobrow
Public health physician and epidemiologist
Working to make epidemiological data on brain health in Africa more accessible by wrangling routine data into interactive data visualizations to inform policy and research.
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Kirti Ranchod
Neurologist
Making brain health practical and relevant. Promoting an understanding of traditional and cultural practices which promote brain health.
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Kodwa Mpepho
Director, Women and Girls Leadership Foundation
Promoting access to sexual and reproductive health and justice for girls and women in rural and peri-urban areas through advocacy and strengthening leadership skills.
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Koketso Moeti
Founding executive director, amandla.mobi
Harnessing the power of low-income Black women for collective action through amandla.mobi, a mobile phone civic engagement tool.
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Kuvashna Singh
Pharmacist, Department of Health; master’s candidate (Public Health), Rhodes University
Working toward improving health care in the public sector.
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Lance Louskieter
Ph.D. candidate, researcher and educator, Health Policy and Systems Research Division, University of Cape Town
Advocating for health systems' responsiveness and championing sexual and reproductive justice for sex workers and queer persons through influencing policy and implementation.
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Lebo Molete
Founding member, PHELA (Public Health Education, Liaison and Advocacy) Foundation
Facilitating the inclusion of patients as a prominent stakeholder group in the development and implementation of health services and strategic health policies.
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Lena Stofile
Environmental health manager, City of Cape Town
Advancing policies and programs to reduce chemical and other environmental exposures in air, water, soil and food, to protect people and provide communities with healthier environments.
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Lindi Mzankomo
Senior budget analyst, Public Finance, National Treasury (Department of Finance), South Africa
Developing social assistance models, budgets and policy advancements for improved health and education outcomes for poor people.
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Lindile Ngwenya
Master’s student, University of the Witswatersrand
Supporting vulnerable individuals through community development and advocacy, and volunteering at a refugee center; this social worker is aiming to complete a master’s degree in migration and displacement.
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Lindiwe Nkutha
Operations and finance manager, Institute for Economic Justice
Empowering Black women and youth to tell their stories as a founder and co-director at Osibakhulu Development Initiatives; also working as operations and finance manager at the Institute for Economic Justice.
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Lungile Quiny Dube
Director/chairperson, USAWA for Learning and Healing
Contributing to educational approaches that are empowering and for liberation purposes by understanding the intersectionality of education and health within aspects of adolescent girls and young women.
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Mafoko Phomane
Environmental health campaign manager, groundWork, South Africa
Advocating for environmental justice, working with the health sector and communities.
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Mahoro Semege
Associate research supervisor, postgraduate studies, African Film and Dramatic Arts Academy (AFDA)
Serving as a supervisor at a leading film school in South Africa; researching civic intervention documentary, post-colonial theory and African philosophy.
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Masana Mulaudzi
Senior manager, Campaign Organizing (Movement Building), Wikimedia Foundation
Leading the implementation, management, supervision and evaluation of campaign organizing for Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit organization that operates Wikipedia.
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Michelle Brotherton
Advocate, Rhodes University
Specializing as an advocate in international human rights, health rights and health care systems.
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Minhaj Jeenah
Executive director, My Vote Counts
Coordinating a democratic process to build a broadbased and sustainable alliance that represents community-based organizations, social movements, NGOs and trade unions across South Africa’s nine provinces.
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Mmabatho Langa
Physiotherapist (specializing in rural health)
Ensuring the provision of public health services in rural communities and hospitals; providing physiotherapy services to Limpopo Academy of Sport
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Mpho Mogapi
Cluster manager, Soul City Institute for Social Justice
Advocating for social justice for young women and girls, and their rights in accessing sexual reproductive health services in a youth-friendly environment that is underpinned by intersectional feminism.
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Musa Gwebani
Policy officer, European Union Delegation to South Africa
Elevating issues of migration, regional integration and the strengthening of a civil society that can add vibrancy to South Africa’s democracy.
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Naledi Kekana
Feminist movement builder and civil society professional
Curating and facilitating platforms for dialogue and learning for African women as a pathway to achieving social justice and systems change.
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Nangamso Koza
Education development strategist and independent consultant
Promoting community-driven and school-focused health education programs in marginalized communities, with a particular interest in providing a decolonized education system and alternative education models.
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Nazeer Sonday
Chairperson, Philippi Horticultural Area (PHA) Food and Farming Campaign
Promoting sustainable food sourcing and farming practices that protect farmland against urban sprawl and development that put farmers’ livelihoods at risk.
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Neo Muyanga
Composer and installation artist
Using storytelling and music to transcend the barriers erected by apartheid between diverse communities.
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Nhlanhla Mnisi
Researcher, University of Pretoria
Working on how water-monitoring tools can be Indigenized to incorporate practical linguistic tools and local cultures.
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Nikki Green (nee Vermeulen)
Coordinator for community-centered programs, the Centre for Social Development, Rhodes University
Reimagining the ways in which corporate and NGO spaces can be connected and developed to enhance access to resources and opportunities for social change.
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Noluthando Ndlovu
Researcher, Health Systems Trust
Conducting evidence-based research that contributes to policy strengthening health systems in South Africa, predominantly using quantitative data to address health equity.
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Nolwazi Tusini
Broadcast journalist and gender activist
Writing contemporary news stories within the context of South Africa’s racialized past, which continues to have an impact on the country’s racialized and gendered present.
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Nomathamsanqa 'Thami' Mngxekeza
Operations manager, Kozi Foundation
Providing support and guidance to women-led, not-for-profit organizations on good governance and best financial management practices. Advocating for parental involvement in sexual and reproductive health education.
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Nomfundo Mkhaba
Project developer, Waste for Change
Teaching leadership, gender equity and environmental sustainability.
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Nonkululeko 'Nkuli' Mbuli
Communications and advocacy strategist, Embrace Movement for Mothers
Using media and communications as a tool for social change.
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Nonzaliseko Magidiwane
Community activist
Organizing to eradicate gender-based violence in communities and supporting LGBTQI+ communities; Nonzaliseko is a health promoter and support group facilitator for communities in the Eastern Cape province.
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Nqobizwe Mahlangu
Medical student
Improving access to sexual reproductive health rights, with a passion for sanitary dignity, maternal care and preventing gynecological ills; exploring sustainable social entrepreneurial models that provide solutions in Africa.
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Ntebaleng Morake
Curriculum and education coordinator, Social Justice Coalition
Building a South Africa that addresses the injustices of the past while seeking alternatives for a just and equal society.
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Ntombikanina Malinga
Founder and director, UCU Consulting
Creating new narratives to invoke soul consciousness as a tool for shaping private and public sector leadership in Africa. Imagining new political and economic paradigms to end racial injustice globally.
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Ntombizanele (Zanele) Figlan
Head of environmental health, City of Cape Town
Advocating for environmental health as a determinant of health to be at the center of human health.
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