Collet Ngwane

Collet Ngwane is a researcher for the Gender Based Violence Programme. She joined CSVR as a research intern in 1999 whilst studying toward a Bachelor of Arts degree at Wits University. Collet has conducted gender-based violence research on various issues; including a study monitoring the implementation of the Domestic Violence Act and a study on the nature and extent of Intimate Femicide in Gauteng Province. She has also conducted training workshops for men and women on domestic violence, sexual violence and violence against women with disabilities, as well as on the intersection between violence against women and HIV/AIDS.
In 2003 Collet left the organisation to work as a consultant for various public interest organisations including the Freedom of Expression Institute, Social Surveys and Community Agency for Social Change. She rejoined the CSVR in 2006 to work on a project tracking rape survivor’s cases through the criminal justice system to identify where attrition occurs. 
Currently, she is continuing her studies with the University of South Africa and aims to qualify as a Public Health Psychologist.
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Cyril Adonis 

Cyril Adonis joined CSVR as Project Manager in its Transitional Justice Programme (TJP). Prior to that he was research manager at the Independent Complaint Directorate (ICD). He is registered as a Research Psychologist with the Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) since 2001. In 2002 he was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to pursue doctoral studies in Conflict Analysis and Resolution at Nova Southeastern University in the United States. He was also a recipient of the NRF doctoral studies abroad scholarship in 2004. After completing the coursework component of his degree, he returned to South Africa in 2005 to complete his doctoral dissertation, entitled Transgenerational transmission of trauma and implications for political forgiveness in post-apartheid South Africa. He hopes to complete this at the end of 2008.
His professional experience has primarily been in the fields of education (at both secondary and tertiary levels) and research (criminal and transitional justice). In terms of criminal justice, his research has focused on police oversight and accountability, and his transitional justice research experiences has focused broadly on the TRC, Forgiveness and Reconciliation, Memory and Memorialisation, as well as Transgenerational Transmission of Trauma. He has presented his research at conferences in Australia, the USA and Switzerland. His current assignment at CSVR involve evaluation the TJP Ex-combatants Policy Dialogue and Memorialisation projects.  
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David Bruce

David Bruce is a Senior Researcher in the Criminal Justice Program at the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation. While he has a general interest in issues of policing, criminal justice and crime prevention his work is mainly focused firstly on issues of police integrity, conduct and accountability and secondly on the issue of effective evidence based crime investigation and prosecution. In the recent period his work on police integrity has focused on the use of force by police and a range of related issues including the problems of police brutality and deaths as a result of police action, and measures to control police use of force including internal control measures and oversight mechanisms. His work has also focused on the issue of police corruption and he is currently editing a book on preventing and controlling police corruption and brutality in South Africa. The work on evidence based crime investigation and prosecution links to an interest in the role of witnesses, particularly in relation to the types of skills which detectives and prosecutors need to have to work effectively with witnesses, and the links between these issues and victim empowerment.
David also coordinates the policing components of the work of the CJP. In the past his work has also dealt with other aspects of policing and crime prevention including community policing and local level safety and security issues as well as the issue of vigilantism. He has written for a variety of South African newspapers as well as criminal justice related journals. Prior to joining CSVR in 1996, David worked for the Nedcor Project on Crime, Violence and Investment, the Ceasefire Campaign, the National Youth Service Initiative, the End Conscription Campaign and the journal, Critical Health. In 1988 he received the Reebok Human Rights Award after being sentenced to imprisonment for refusing to do military service under the apartheid system on the grounds of his opposition to racism. He has a BA from the University of the Witwatersrand which he obtained in 1988 and a Masters in Public and Development Management which he obtained in 2000.
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Dominique Dix-Peek

Emily Mabusela

Emily is the Manager of the Youth Violence Prevention Programme. Her passion in the development sector was ignited while volunteering as a community media activist in her student life when she was amongst the founding members of Durban Youth Radio in the mid nineties. She to date has been working formally in the youth development sector for a period spanning over eight years. In this period she has conceptualised, implemented and managed youth focal projects across South Africa in structured learning environments, communities, and government institutions. Emily started her career in 2000 initiating youth centres for Planned Parenthood Association of South Africa (PPASA), moving on to being a refugee life-skills coordinator in the same organization. She joined the University of Kwa-Zulu Natal in 2003 to initiate and manage the Campus HIV and AIDS support unit(s), which was aimed at providing a safe space discourse and action against HIV and AIDS.  Prior to joining CSVR Emily served as the Youth Advocacy Advisor in the Integrated Primary Health Care Project (IPHC). Emily is currently pursuing a Masters in Sociology with UNISA and holds degrees in nursing and Honours in Social Sciences from the University of Natal.
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Gaudence Uwiyeze

Trauma and Transition Programme

George Mukundi Wachira

George Mukundi is an advocate of the High Court of Kenya and joined CSVR in April 2009 as a Regional Coordinator with the Transitional Justice Programme. He has a law (LLB) degree from the University of Nairobi, a masters (LLM) degree in human rights and democratization in Africa from the University of Pretoria and a doctorate (LLD) degree in international human rights law from the same University. He began his legal career with one of the top law firms in Kenya, Ndungu, Njoroge and Kwach Advocates. For the last 10 years, his work has focused on constitutional and human rights law across the African continent with among others the Constitution of Kenya Review Commission; the Office of United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (Cairo, Egypt); the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (Banjul, the Gambia); The South African Institute for Advanced Constitutional, Public, Human Rights and International Law; and the Forced Migration Studies Programme, University of the Witwatersrand. Mukundi’s interests and expertise is on the African regional and sub regional human rights systems and institutions, especially the work of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights and the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights. He has published over 10 peer reviewed articles and publications and consulted on regional treaty monitoring mechanisms, regional integration, migrant rights, indigenous peoples’ land rights, and constitutional commissions.
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Hugo van der Merwe

Hugo van der Merwe is the Transitional Justice Programme Manager at the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation in South Africa. Since joining CSVR in 1997, he has developed and managed numerous research projects evaluating the work and impact of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) and managed various research, advocacy and intervention projects relating to transitional justice in South Africa and the African continent.  Hugo is the Co-Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Transitional Justice.  He is the co-editor of “Assessing the Impact of Transitional Justice” (USIP Press, 2009), “Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa: Did the TRC Deliver?” (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008), and “Conflict Resolution Theory and Practice” (Manchester University Press, 1993). Hugo received his doctorate in Conflict Analysis and Resolution from George Mason University (1999) and a BSc from the University of Cape Town (majoring in Statistics and Sociology).  Hugo was previously employed at the Centre for Applied Legal Studies (Johannesburg)Centre for Conflict Resolution (Cape Town), Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution (USA) and the National Institute for Dispute Resolution (USA). Hugo specialises in research design and management, and his content expertise extends to transitional justice, conflict resolution, DDR, restorative justice, rule of law, and reconciliation.  He also teaches transitional justice courses at the University of Stellenbosch.
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Jasmina Brankovic

Jasmina Brankovic is the assistant editor of the International Journal of Transitional Justice. She holds a BA from the University of Chicago and an MA in Political Science from the American University in Cairo (AUC), for which she designed and implemented a field research study on civil society in the context of the conflict in northern Uganda. She has conducted research for several institutes and organisations, including the Forced Migration and Refugee Studies program at AUC and the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights in Cairo. She has edited publications for institutions as diverse as Reuters, the AUC Press, the International Center for Transitional Justice, the Centre for Civil Society at the University of KwaZulu-Natal and the Harvard Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research. She is based in Cape Town.
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Kenneth Collis

Kenneth holds a Bachelor of Science Degree from the University of the Witwatersrand, specialising in Computer Science, he is the current IT support co-ordinator for the CSVR. His primary interests are in contributing to the NGO Sector, through the use of available & affordable technology, and to the growth of South Africa in the broader sense.
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Kindiza Ngubeni

Kindiza holds BA in history and in African Studies from the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA). He is a community facilitator in the CSVR's Criminal Justice Program has facilitated a project called Voices of Young Offenders, where he has worked for a decade. He is currently involved in a project, which 'Voices of Young Offenders' which worked with 24 offenders between March and July 2000 in Leeuwkop prison near Johannesburg. The project investigated some of the reasons why these young people ended up in jail, and their ideas about crime and violence. Following on the learnings gained from the Voices of Young OffendersProject, Kindiza co-facilitated a Life Skills training programme for male and female young offenders in Johannesburg prison. Prior to working with young offenders, he was a facilitator involved in the establishment and capacity-building of Community Police Fora (CPF's) in the Gauteng province,in collabotation with other NGOs. He went to Netherlands for community-police relations study tour in 1994 with a South African delegation. He has trained police officers at station level in many parts of Gauteng, including Soweto, Tembisa, Sebokeng and Evaton, and has been involved in various processes of mediation between the police and community.
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Lerato Seohatse: Researcher- Gender Programme

Maimuna Suliman

Makhosazana (Khosi) Sibeko

I started out as a social worker and when the new government came in, I was appointed to the Strategic Management Team for Welfare in the Free State.  I later joined the Centre for Health Policy (CHP) at Wits as a junior researcher and left after two years to become the Regional Director of the Black Sash in Gauteng.  I rejoined government and was Director of Policy and Programmes at the National Youth Commission in the Presidency for nearly five years.  I went on to work for the policy unit in the Gauteng Office of the Premier as Director for Social Development.  A year ago I left the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry and the position of Director:  Strategic Support.  Policy work has always been my passion and in the last two positions, supporting the Executive in Cabinet processes, was one of my major responsibilities.

Malose Langa

Malose Langa is a lecturer in the School of Community and Human development at the University of Witwatersrand. Malose is a registered Community-Counselling Psychologist and works with victims of violence at the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR) Trauma Clinic. He was part of the research team that conducted a study with former combatants in the East Rand to explore challenges facing former combatants after 13 years of democracy. His research interests include risk-taking behaviours amongst the youth, suicide, substance abuse, trauma and the psychology of men (masculinity). Malose is a PhD candidate at Wits University and his thesis is entitled: Becoming a Man, Exploring multiple voices of masculinity amongst adolescent boys in Alexandra Township, South Africa.
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Marivic Garcia

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Megan Bantjes

Megan Bantjes is a sessional Community-Counselling Psychologist at the Trauma and Transition Programme where she has done psychotherapy and counselling, community work and research since 2006. Her current research interests are refugee mental health, trauma and torture as well as the application of community psychology theory in the South African context. The use of translators in psychological interventions in primary health care was her MA research topic at Wits University where she remains involved as a community psychology lecturer. She has worked and volunteered in the education, social development, NGO and charity sectors since 1996 and continues to provide contract services to various projects and organisations in these sectors.
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Melissa Harry

Modiegi Merafe

Monica Bandeira

Monica Bandeira is a registered Psychologist working as a researcher for the Trauma and Transition Programme. She has been working in the field of trauma and violence since 2000. Her experience includes individual therapy of victims; community interventions; research; and coordination of different projects. In her current position she has been involved in the development of a monitoring and evaluating system for the clinical work done with torture victims as well as research into the current psychosocial interventions available to ex-combatants in South Africa. She is passionate about her work and interested in gaining more understanding into contextually relevant approaches.
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Mosima Selemela

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Mpho Matlhakola

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Muzikayise Tshabalala

Muzi Tshabalala is a community facilitator in CSVR's Youth Violence Prevention Programme where he works with youth from Soweto and Katlehong in the Safe Start project. He joined CSVR in 2000 as a part-time community facilitator in the 40 Safe Schools Project. He was then employed as an intern from 2001 until 2002. He joined CSVR full time in 2003. Prior to joining CSVR Muzi worked at the Planned Parenthood Association of South Africa as a life skills educator under the Refugee Life Skills Project for nine months. He is currently studying at UNISA with the intention of qualifying as a Professional Youth Worker.
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Naeem Mohammed: Finance officer

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Nahla Valji

Nahla Valji holds a BA from the University of British Columbia and an MA in International Relations and Joint Diploma in Forced Migration Studies from York University, Toronto. She is currently a Senior Project Manager in the Transitional Justice Programme in Cape Town where she manages the African Transitional Justice Research Network; a network which focuses on building capacity amongst researchers and transitional justice activists on the African continent to inform, monitor and conduct advocacy concerning transitional justice policies in their countries.  She is also the Managing Editor of the International Journal of Transitional Justice, published by Oxford University Press.
Recent publications include a book chapter on ‘Gender Justice and Reconciliation’; a chapter on truth commissions and trials for a forthcoming handbook on human rights, and an evaluation for UNIFEM of their gender and transitional justice programming in Rwanda since the genocide. She has also published widely on gender and asylum processes – including co-authoring the ‘Gender Persecution Guidelines’ for asylum determination officers of the Department of Home Affairs of South Africa.
Nahla was previously Gender Project Officer and Researcher at the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, where she conducted training for South African parliamentarians on gender budgetary analysis in policy making. Prior to this she was employed as a Researcher at the Community Agency for Social Enquiry in Johannesburg.
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Nokukhanya Mncwabe

Nokukhanya Mncwabe is the Regional Coordinator for the African Transitional Justice Research Network (ATJRN), a project of the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation’s Transitional Justice Programme. With a BSocSci (Philosophy & Politics) degree from the University of Cape Town, Khanya has worked predominantly in the non-governmental and civil society sector. The focus of this work has been predominantly in the field of youth and gender advocacy; however, the scope of the work has been broad and has included such issues as sexual violence, HIV/AIDS, cultural diversity/tolerance, etc. During her time with CSVR, Khanya is hoping to learn more about the field of transitional justice and its relation to the broader human rights system, and to further her studies.
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