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EXPERT SOURCES MEDIA ALERT: QUOTE THIS WOMAN+

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MILITARY, POLICE, PROTESTS, RULE OF LAW


Ziyanda Stuurman (Cape Town)
Stuurman is the author of Can we be safe? The Future of Policing in South Africa. She has researched the intersections of security studies, gender studies, international relations, development studies and domestic public policy. Recently she has been looking into inconsistencies in the way police treat different groups in South Africa. 
Media tags: policing, militarisation, pacification, security studies, international relations, political risk analysis, terrorism
Contact details: ziyanda.stuurman@gmail.com 

Kaajal Ramjathan-Keogh (Johannesburg)
Ramjathan-Keogh is the director of the International Court of Justice's Africa office. She is an expert in rule of law and in the fields of asylum, refugee protection, migration, citizenship and statelessness.
Media tags: policing and military interventions, rule of law, rights of marginalised and vulnerable groups 
Contact details: kaajal.keogh@icj.org / kaajal.keogh@gmail.com 



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UNPACKING PROTEST ACTION


Dr Hlengiwe Ndlovu (Johannesburg)
Dr Ndlovu is an academic, a researcher, a political & policy analyst, and a gender & human rights activist. She is also the co-editor of the book Rioting and Writing: Diaries of the Wits Fallists (2017). Her research interests include questions on identity politics, gender equity & gender justice, women & labour, power struggles, local governance & citizenship, public administration, service delivery, popular protests, and forms of claim-making & resistance. Dr Ndlovu is a Postdoctoral Fellow - Centre for Women and Gender Studies at Nelson Mandela University. 
Media tags: South African unrest, repertoires of protests that include 'looting' and burning, socioeconomic conditions in South Africa, political factions & ANC fragility, inciting ethnic wars/violence, promoting violence, political analysis, local governance, service delivery, urban geographies, informal settlements
Contact details: hlengiepn@gmail.com 

Busisiwe Zasekhaya (Johannesburg)  
Zasekhaya is the Project Coordinator at Right2Protest Project, a coalition of civil society organisations whose aim is to advance and protect the constitutional right to protest. Her interests lie in politics, policy analysis and political science. She is an alumna of the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy and a graduate of the University of the Witwatersrand.
Media tags: human rights, protests, constitutional right to protest
Contact details: bzasekhaya@gmail.com / Busisiwe.Zasekhaya1@wits.ac.za 

Prof Carin Runciman (Johannesburg)
Prof Runciman is a sociologist who specialises in the analysis of working-class mobilisation, with a particular focus on community protests and precarious work. She combines her scholarship with social justice activism and is a management committee member of the Casual Workers Advice Office.
Media tags: strike and protest action around Zuma, precarious work, temporary employment, voting and non-voting in South Africa, relations between civil society and the South African state, holes in the Covid-19 Temporary Employee/Employer Relief Scheme
Contact details: crunciman@uj.ac.za 



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IMPACT ON ELECTIONS

 
Prof Narnia Bohler-Muller (Pretoria)
Prof Bohler-Muller is the divisional executive for the Developmental, Capable and Ethical State research programme at the Human Sciences Research Council. Recently she has been working on the UJ/ HSRC COVID-19 democracy survey. Her research interests include international & constitutional law; human rights, democracy and social justice.
Media tags: trust in the government, trust in the president, COVID-19, the possible postponement of elections in the context of the pandemic and the political context of the violence we are experiencing
Contact details: nbohlermuller@hsrc.ac.za / narnia2371@gmail.com 



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FEAR, PARANOIA AND SOCIAL RIFTS


Prof Nicky Falkof (Johannesburg)
Prof Falkof's research interests centre on race, anxiety and moral panic in the urban global south, with a primary focus on South Africa. She is an Associate Professor in the Media Studies department at Wits University.
Media tags: racial anxiety, swart gevaar/white fear, conspiracy theory, the social functions of panic/anxiety, moral panic and the media, apartheid remnants
Contact details: nicky.falkof@wits.ac.za 

Dr Cori Wielenga (North West)
Dr Wielenga is a politics lecturer with research interest in the intersection of formal and informal governance and justice systems during transitions. This has led to in-depth research on Rwanda's gacaca courts, South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and comparative projects on the informal justice systems in Burundi, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Namibia. Findings from these projects are intended to inform emerging transitional justice policies and guidelines in Africa and further abroad.
Media tags: the role of (social) media (how it shapes the narrative, how it’s been instrumentalised), fear and paranoia (what it leads people to do that they wouldn't normally do), intersecting identify rifts in our society (ethnicity, race, economic, geographic) and how these are being instrumentalised, solidarity (people coming together, volunteering, 'the heroes'), what we need right now
Contact details: coriwielenga@gmail.com - only available via email



5.

STRESS AND TRAUMA


Dr Erica Munnik (Cape Town)
Dr Munnik is a clinical psychologist registered at the HPCSA and is a senior lecturer, researcher and supervisor at the Faculty of Community and Health Sciences at University of the Western Cape. She has a small private practice where she does short term focused therapy with adults and children in a variety of areas such as depression, anxiety, adjustment difficulties, trauma, loss and bereavement, child emotional and behavioral difficulties, burnout and stress.
Media tags: trauma, PTSD, anxiety, mental health, bereavement, loss, trauma, burnout, stress
Contact details: emunnik@uwc.ac.za



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PEACEKEEPING


Dr Marjorie Jobson (North West)
Dr Jobson is a medical graduate working in the social justice sector to promote justice and redress towards promoting equity and economic integration within local communities. She is the national director of Khulumani, an organisation that fights for justice for the victims of apartheid atrocities, which has been managing various social media groups through which they try to share accurate information to quell violence, to support individuals under threat and to encourage participation in community-based activities to restore. Dr Jobson is also on the South African Women in Dialogue Peace Commission. 
Media tags: peacekeeping, constitutional and human rights issues, transformation through healing, community empowerment for civic competence and accountability, women and gender lenses on development and on building integrated communities, apartheid justice
Contact details: marje@khulumani.net / mdjmdd@gmail.com




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GENDERED IMPACT

Rikky Minyuku (Johannesburg)
Minyuku is an independent human rights, development and facilitation practitioner. She is a facilitator at Womaniko, a coaching and transformation organisation, and works with corporate clients, donors and government institutions. Specialising in multi-stakeholder processes provides an opportunity to promote her passion for equality and human rights, in particular gender equality and diversity. 
Media tags: gendered impacts of the current context, the role that business, civil society and communities can play to shift the dynamic for all members of society, human rights, equality, corporate transformation
Contact details: rminyuku@womaniko.com 


7.

VIOLENCE AND RISK

Jasmine Opperman (Pretoria)
Opperman is a methodological risk analyst, with experience in the management of intelligence processes (operations, counter-intelligence, covert activities and analysis). She is currently an analyst at the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) responsible for analysing incidents, trends and developments related to extremism. Opperman is the only person directly engaged in de-radicalisation programmes (to change people's beliefs away from extremism) in South Africa. She was also commissioned as a senior trainer at the Intelligence Academy, focusing on analysis, operational analysis, counter-terrorism, low-intensity conflict and intelligence management within a constitutional democracy. 
Media tags: political violence, terrorism, Africa, intelligence, radicalization, de-radicalization (the change of people's beliefs away from an extremist interpretation of ideologies), Covid-19 and the correlation with political violence and terrorism
Contact details: JasmineOpperman@protonmail.com


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INEQUALITY IN EDUCATION

Dr Zahraa McDonald (Johannesburg)
Dr McDonald is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Johannesburg focusing on research in the field of higher education, where she also lectures part time. She has also been a postdoctoral fellow at Stellenbosch University (researching citizenship education), at the University of Cape Town (researching religion and education), at Cape Peninsula University of Technology (researching teacher education). 
Media tags: inequality in education, school readiness for reopening during Covid-19
Contact details: zahraam@uj.ac.za / zahraamcdonald@hotmail.com 


10.

CORRUPTION

Liezl Groenewald (Cape Town)
Groenewald is author of the Ethics and Compliance Handbook and Whistleblowing Management Handbook and is a business ethicist whose PhD is in Applied Ethics (through Stellenbosch University) 
Media tags: corruption, ethical leadership, ethics of Covid-19 fund corruption, business ethics, organisational ethics, whistleblowing, conflicts of interest, organisational culture
Contact details: liezl@tei.org.za



11.

DEEPENING DIVIDES

Prof Vasti Roodt (Stellenbosch)
Prof Roodt's work focuses on moral and political philosophy. She has written on identity politics and public happiness. She is the Head of the Unit for Social and Political Ethics in the Stellenbosch University’s Centre for Applied Ethics. 
Media tags: social justice, social and economic inequality in relation to the legitimacy of political authority, liberty, rights and law, national unity
Contact details: vroodt@sun.ac.za


12.

HUMAN RIGHTS

Fatima Hassan (Cape Town)
Hassan is a South African human rights lawyer and social justice activist. She has dedicated her professional life to defending and promoting human rights in South Africa, especially in the field of HIV/AIDS. She has published widely on issues related to social justice and HIV/AIDS and more recently philanthropy.
Media tags: social justice, covid-19, law, philanthropy, governance, transformation, public interest media, government policy, law reform
Contact details: please email Althea@healthjusticeinitiative.org.za to get hold of Hassan


13.

STUFF FROM US

As an organisation based in KZN, we have been deeply saddened by the violence and upheaval around the people we care for. Our love goes out to all who call South Africa home, as we hope that out of this comes the beginnings of a fairer society. Look after your physical & emotional selves, friends. Stay safe.

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MORE NEWS ALERTS & CONTACTS


Expect ongoing news alerts from QW+ as we find more woman+ voices to expand the narrative and ensure nuance and context in reporting around what is happening in South Africa at present.

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