Growth-focused, tactical leader with expertise spanning sales, lead generation, market dynamics, regulatory frameworks, requirements assessment, data analysis, marketing, consulting, strategic planning, problem solving, process improvement, stakeholder engagement, end-to-end client relationship management, operations management, team leadership, training, performance assessment, and project management. Exceptionally dedicated professional with keen interpersonal, communication, and organizational skills, as well as negotiation, budget management, policy management, and resource allocation expertise.

With a focus on community-driven alternatives, she has worked extensively in policy analysis, program management, and research. Annuschka holds an MPhil in Conflict Management and Transformation (2019) and has expertise in humanistic and participatory methodologies. She has led various development projects, including land access advocacy, community organizing, and legislative engagement. Her career spans roles in organizations such as Surplus People Project (SPP) where she is currently the Programme Lead for Land and her time with SPP spans from 2021 to date, Trust for Community Outreach and Education (TCOE) from 2016 to 2020, Isandla Institute from 2014 to 2016, and City of Cape Town (Public Participation) and Western Cape Provincial Government from 2011 to 2013. Annuschka is skilled in stakeholder engagement, facilitation, and capacity building. Annuschka is committed to advancing rural development, supporting marginalized communities, and fostering effective partnerships.

His most recent sole-authored book is From Prohibited Immigrants to Citizens: The Origins of Citizenship and Nationality in South Africa (2017). He holds a Phd in sociology from Yale University and law degrees from Columbia (JD) and Wits (LLB). He served as Head/Dean of the Wits Law School from 2010 to 2013 and as Director of the School’s Mandela Institute from 2005 to 2007. In 2016, he served as an Acting Judge on the High Court of South Africa (South Gauteng).

Raised in a humanitarian family during an era of institutionalized racial inequality, he developed an unwavering commitment to justice, equality, and the empowerment of marginalized communities. He proudly aligns himself with a generation of scholars working to assert authentic African narratives, both in legal education and national institutions.

He holds a BA and LLB from the former University of Natal, and an LLM from Georgetown University. Mofokeng currently serves as Academic Leader and Senior Lecturer in the School of Law at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, where he lectures and publishes in the fields of African Indigenous Law, legal pluralism, religious legal systems, human rights, and international humanitarian law.

Mofokeng is the Chairperson of the Supervisory Board of the Foundation for Human Rights (FHR), and has held leadership roles in several prominent legal education and advocacy organizations, including: African Ombudsman Research Centre (AORC); Institute for Practical Legal Training (IPLT); Practical Vocational Training School for Legal Practice (Durban), Street Law Incorporated (Durban), and others.

A widely respected author in his field of research, he has co-authored several academic textbooks, peer-reviewed articles, and legal commentaries that have significantly advanced the study and understanding of African Customary Law and human rights. His scholarship, while collaborating with peers, has played a vital role in the decolonization and Africanization of legal education in South Africa.

With a career spanning academia, advocacy, and institutional leadership, Mofokeng remains a one of the pivotal figures in the transformation of South African law, bridging legal cultures and championing the enduring value of Africa’s diverse legal traditions.

He completed his articles in the Western Cape, and was admitted as an attorney in March 1988. He took up a Fulbright scholarship at New York University where he did an LLM focusing on International Human Rights law. During this time he interned at various law firms. He returned to South Africa and took up employment with the Legal Resources Centre in Johannesburg in March 1990 where he has worked for 4 years before transferring to the Durban office, where he remained until his appointment to the High Court bench in June 2014. As the Director of the Durban office for more than 12 years, he has served on the Executive Committee of the LRC. Since his appointment to the bench, he has been invited to serve on the Board of the Legal Resources Trust, which oversees the work of the LRC. He is a dedicated activist who still retains contact with the various community organizations with whom he has worked with over the years.

Her scientific background adds a unique quantitative focus to the organisation’s research activities whilst its approaches remain deeply participatory and qualitative.

Her concern for social justice and her activist heart is evident in the human focus of her work. She has written extensively on topics relating to good governance, active citizenship and development and has worked on various development projects both locally and nationally.

He is a human rights lawyer with extensive experience in democracy-building, strengthening national governance systems, conflict prevention and justice sector reform. He previously worked with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) as the senior governance advisor and regional program manager in the Regional Bureau for Africa (2010-2013). Malunga also held UN posts focused on peacekeeping, post conflict recovery and transitional justice in East Timor (2000-2003) where he was lead defence trial attorney in the Special Panel for Serious Crimes. He also led UNDP’s effort to rebuild the justice sector in Afghanistan (2003-2006). Malunga went on to lead UNDP global efforts at integrating conflict prevention and democratic governance policy and programs at the Governance Centre in Oslo (2006-2007) and later, UNDP’s democratic governance work at the East and Southern Africa office in Johannesburg (2008-2010). Malunga is a pan African social justice advocate and a regular commentator and contributor on political, social and economic governance as well as human rights and accountability issues in national, regional and international publications and platforms. He is a Global Justice Fellow at Yale University and holds a PhD in International Law from the University of Witwatersrand.

In 2015, Ms Sooka served as a Member of the Independent Review Panel for Central African Republic (CAR) appointed by the UN Secretary General in June 2015, which investigated Allegations of Sexual Abuse by Foreign Military Forces in the Central African Republic as well as the UN Response to the Allegations. In July 2010, Ms Sooka was appointed by the Secretary-General to serve as a member of the Panel of Experts advising the Secretary-General on Accountability for War Crimes in Sri Lanka. In the years 2000-2019, Yasmin Sooka was the Executive Director of the Foundation for Human Rights in South Africa, an independent non-profit Foundation established in 1996 by President Mandela’s government and the European Union, to address the legacy of apartheid and to support the building of a human rights culture in South Africa. She also served as a Commissioner on the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission from 1996 to March 2003. She was also appointed by Mary Robinson as one if three independent UN Commissioners on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Sierra Leone between 2002 and 2004. She also held the post of the Inaugural Soros Chair at School of Public Policy-Budapest in the fall of 2015 where she lectured on transitional justice. Ms Sooka also served as an advisory member of the UN Global Study on Resolution 1325 in 2015. She is a Board member of Justice Rapid Response (JRR) and is currently a member of the Independent Advisory Review Panel for UNICEF on its review of the Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA) polices.

Prior to his ED leadership role, Zaid Kimmie held a sequence of leadership roles at FHR in knowledge management, program leadership, institutional planning, monitoring and evaluation, and research over a period of 10 years. He held directorate roles at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), and the Community Agency for Social Enquiry (CASE) before this. Zaid’s career has been marked by a dedication to human rights with an emphasis on strategy, research and he continues to teach graduate-level courses in Research Methodology and Statistics. Kimmie’s expertise has included a role as a technical expert for the Council for Medical Schemes Inquiry, investigating racial profiling by medical aid schemes. He has an extensive list of publications on an array of topics.