EXPERT SOURCES MEDIA ALERT: QUOTE THIS WOMAN+
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G7 VACCINE DONATIONS
Dr Leaza Jernberg (Johannesburg)
Dr Jernberg is an international relations researcher and consultant who focuses on cities as powerful actors in the changing international order, geopolitics and international security. She looks at how emerging global trends affect the countries and economies of the world. Dr Jernberg can comment on the outcomes of the G7 summit, especially the decision to donate 1 billion vaccines.
COVID-19: G7 vaccine donations, South Africa's readiness to deal with Covid-19, international security, South Africa's foreign policy
Media tags: international relations, cities, geopolitics, global health
Contact details: Leaza.Jernberg@gmail.com
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SOUTH AFRICA'S THIRD WAVE
Dr Lehlohonolo Majake (Gauteng)
Dr Majake is a public health medicine specialist with over 15 years of experience in the health space. She is an expert on health systems management in both the public and private health sectors, and currently works as a hospital manager in Gauteng. She has worked in the television space as part of her health promotion passion to advocate for preventative behavioural change that will bring about improved health outcomes for society.
COVID-19: South Africa’s third wave, Covid-19 in Gauteng, pandemic preparedness, healthcare after the pandemic, what COVID-19 means to the NHI, preventative measures for those going to work, life after COVID-19
Media tags: public health medicine, NHI, private health care, public health care, quality health care
Contact details: magsmajake@hotmail.com
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EDUCATION UNDER SA'S LEVEL 4 LOCKDOWN
Joanne Hardman (Cape Town)
Hardman is an Associate Professor in the School of Education at UCT. Her research is predominantly in child development and teaching and learning, with a specific focus on the use of technology in educational and home settings. Hardman holds the Distinguished Teachers Award at UCT for her work with students and in curriculum design and implementation.
COVID-19: Level 4 restrictions on schooling, the importance of teachers’ vaccinations, the ability of South African schools and universities to cope with online / home learning scenarios, changes to the curriculum adaptations to complete the academic year, anxiety that children might be feeling going to school
Media tags: cyberbullying, child development, online teaching
Contact details: joanne.hardman@uct.ac.za
Dr Nhlanhla Mpofu (Bloemfontein)
Dr Mpofu is a senior lecturer in English Education at the University of the Free State. Her skills are in language education, higher education, academic literacy and programme and curriculum development. Her research attempts to bridge theory and practice in ways that English is used as a second language in different disciplines in multilingual spaces.
COVID-19: Level 4 closures of higher education institutions
Media tags: the state of teachers and teaching in South Africa, English as a Language of Instruction (ELI) in multilingual contexts, higher education, academic literacy, challenges faced by women academics, English as a second language
Contact details: mpofun@ufs.ac.za
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YOUTH & ELECTIONS
Pearl Pillay (Johannesburg)
Pillay has been an activist with experience in community development ranging from gender equality and environmental sustainability to worker's rights and student politics. She is managing director at Youth Lab, a youth policy think tank which aims to create spaces for youth in South Africa to engage on policy issues which affect them.
Media tags: youth engagement in the upcoming municipal elections, politics, gender, race, class, employment, youth, current affairs, social justice, feminism, elections
Contact details: pearl.pillay@youthlab.org.za / pearlgpillay@gmail.com
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ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
Leanne Govindsamy (Johannesburg) new on the database
Govindsamy is a human rights lawyer working towards social and environmental justice. She utilises legal advocacy and other tools to promote and protect constitutional rights and values through corporate accountability and transparency. Govindsamy is head of the corporate, accountability and transparency programme at the Centre for Environmental Rights.
Media tags: corporate accountability, environmental justice, SLAPP suits (strategic litigation against public participation), environmental justice, access to information, shareholder activism around top greenhouse gas emitters, climate justice
Contact details: govindsamyl@gmail.com
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GENDER AND POLITICS IN NIGERIA
Dr Damilola Agbalajobi (Ile-Ife, Nigeria) new on the database
Dr Agbalajobi is a political scientist and a gender specialist. Her areas of research interest are politics of development, gender and women's studies, peace and conflict studies and climate change. She is a political science lecturer at Obafemi Awolowo University, and a fellow of the Leiden African Studies Assembly, and the Nigerian Young Academy. Her latest publication is titled “Promoting Gender Equality in Political Participation: New Perspectives on Nigeria”.
COVID-19: information sources, conspiracy theories, compliance with preventative measures in Lagos, Nigeria
Media tags: women, gender, politics, conflict and peacebuilding
Contact details: dtagbalajobi@gmail.com
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STUFF FROM US
We are busy fundraising for an elections database manager, and would love any amount you can give! This person will be solely responsible for making sure QW+ has as many diverse voices as possible for South Africa’s upcoming municipal elections. You can donate via Snapscan, WhatsApp (we’ve partnered with the new payment start-up, GetPaidFast), or via EFT:
Account name: Quote This Woman NPC
First National Bank
Branch code 255355
Bank Account no 62796430991
SWIFT code FIRNZAJJ
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CONTACTS
If you need an expert’s cell number, or would like access to the rest of the QW+ database contact
- Kathy 0846888980 / kathy@quotethiswoman.org.za / WhatsApp
- Jordan 0812436653 / jordan@quotethiswoman.org.za / WhatsApp
Stay well,
Kathy and the QW+ team
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