EXPERT SOURCES MEDIA ALERT: QUOTE THIS WOMAN+
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YOUTH PERSPECTIVES
Kristal Duncan-Williams (Cape Town) new on the database
Duncan-Williams is the project lead for Youth Capital – an advocacy and mobilisation campaign skilling young people in South Africa to get their first decent job. She has over ten years of research experience in youth employment, public health, and molecular biology. Duncan-Williams believes that quality education, healthcare, and employment are the critical building blocks for a thriving society that helps to unlock the potential of young people in South Africa.
Media tags: youth perspectives on political protest, youth education, youth unemployment, youth mentorship, support & guidance, youth & policy
COVID-19: impact of COVID-19 on youth and their education and employment
Contact details: kristal@youthcapital.co.za
Cheryl Benadie (Gauteng)
Benadie is a facilitator, coach, and founder of the Whole Person Academy. A survivor of numerous forms of abuse, her life is testament to the fact that you can heal and live, love and work from a place of wholeness. She is an advocate for the holistic development of first-generation students who become the first in their families to transition into white collar work.
Media tags: understanding the crises young workers face, work readiness, graduate development, employee engagement, personal finance, becoming debt-free, wholeness, trauma, healing, emotional abuse, sexual abuse, intimate partner violence, domestic violence
Contact details: cheryl@wholenessatwork.com
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SOCIAL COHESION
Dr Quraysha Ismail Sooliman (Pretoria) new on the database
Dr Ismail Sooliman is a journalist, mediator and activist. As a South African female, black, Muslim scholar and academic; much of her research is focused on decoloniality and racism. She is a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Mediation in Africa, University of Pretoria, and hosts her own show called Finding Me on Dstv347, where she considers various topics that impact on and influence the Muslim personal identity and Muslim political agency.
Media tags: social cohesion, protests, conflict, activism, role of business and social partners in times of crisis, decoloniality, education, Islamophobia, Muslim identity
Contact details: quraysha.ismail@gmail.com
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MEDICINE DURING PROTESTS
Prof Quarraisha Abdool Karim (Durban) new on the database
Prof Abdool Karim is an infectious diseases epidemiologist. Her main research interests are in understanding the HIV epidemic in South Africa; factors influencing HIV in adolescent girls; and strategies to introduce antiretroviral therapy in resource-constrained settings. More recently she has been looking at Covid-19 epidemiology and public health responses, and equitable access to biomedical interventions.
Media tags: the ongoing impact of recent political protest action (including looting) on medical practices/practitioners and the health sector; HIV/AIDS, adolescent girls and young women sexual and reproductive health rights (AGYW SRHR), women in STEM,
COVID-19: public health, epidemiology
Contact details: quarraisha.abdoolkarim@caprisa.org
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ECONOMY & LABOUR IN SA’S PROTEST AFTERMATH
Busi Sibeko (Johannesburg)
Sibeko is an economist and researcher at the Institute for Economic Justice (IEJ), with a research focus on macroeconomic policy including tax justice, fiscal and monetary policy, and participatory feminist budgeting to advance socio-economic rights. She offers research support to labour constituencies and is currently on the steering committee of the Budget Justice Coalition. Sibeko is the author of The Cost Austerity: Lessons for South Africa (published 2019), and co-author of A Fiscal Stimulus for South Africa (published 2020).
Media tags: government expenditure/spending, universal basic income grant (UBIG), national budget, feminist economics, budget justice, economic justice, fiscal policy, macroeconomics, advocacy, activism, socio-economic rights, labour
COVID-19: government expenditure/spending, the R500-biilion Covid-19 package
Contact details: busi.sibeko@iej.org.za
Dr Bianca Chigbu (Alice, Eastern Cape)
Dr Chigbu is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Fort Hare, with research interests in labor relations, sustainable development, poverty, education, and equality. She is flexible to engage in a range of other research interests that will drive public good and sustainable socio-economic change, and has looked into technological domination and the future of workers in the labour market in the face of automation.
Media tags: just transitions, labor market, inequality, skills, education, job loss, job automation, poverty risks, job insecurity, public good and livelihood
Contact details: biancagoodness@gmail.com
Dr Precious Mncayi (Gauteng) new on the database
Dr Mncayi is an economics lecturer, with expertise in teaching and the quantitative analysis of socio-economic issues. Her research is broadly in the field of economic development with special interest in graduate and youth labour market dynamics, poverty-related studies and macroeconomic policy formulation. Her PhD focussed on the underemployment amoung young university graduates.
Media tags: graduate labour market dynamics, graduate employability, graduate unemployment, labour economics, labour market research, macroeconomic policy, poverty
Contact details: Precious.Mncayi@nwu.ac.za
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POLITICS & MILITARY
Prof Lindy Heinecken (Stellenbosch)
Heinecken is a professor in the department of sociology and social anthropology, Stellenbosch University. Her main research focus is in the domain of armed forces and society, and recently peacekeeping. She has published widely on a range of issues, including civil military relations, military unionism and defence transformation.
Media tags: the political motivations behind the KZN and Gauteng protests, civil unrest, peacekeeping, defence transformation, armed forces, women in military, civil-military relations,
Contact details: lindy@sun.ac.za
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TAXI INDUSTRY
Lee Randall (Johannesburg)
Dr Lee Randall is an occupational therapist who pivoted into road safety and bioethics. She founded the Road Ethics Project, a nonprofit company which promotes ethical reasoning about road use in South Africa. She obtained her PhD in bioethics and health law at the Steve Biko Centre for Bioethics (Wits) in 2019, with her research having focused on the moral responsibilities for road safety in the minibus taxi industry, from the perspective of taxi drivers.
Media tags: minibus taxi industry: the good and the bad, road ethics, bioethics of road crashes, road safety, injuries and deaths
COVID-19: precautions in the minibus taxi industry
Contact details: lee@therapyteam.co.za
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COVID-19 & AN INFORMATION OVERLOAD
Marion Stevens (Cape Town) new on the database
Stevens has an academic background as a midwife, in medical anthropology and in public and development management. Her interests are twofold right now: infodemiology and sexual and reproductive health rights. The former refers to the management of infomedics (which WHO defines as an “overabundance of information and the rapid spread of misleading or fabricated news, images, and videos”) as a public health intervention. Stevens is also on the Gender Advisory Panel of the WHO.
Media tags: sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), reproductive justice, women's health, population control, contraception, fertility planning, abortion
COVID-19: social listening & infodemiology (the monitoring of media channels for specific mentions, and using this data to inform public health policy), women and Covid-19
Contact details: muizmarion@gmail.com
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FIRES & CONSERVATION
Dr Glynis Humphrey (Cape Town) new on the database
Dr Humphrey is a naturalist, whose main research interests are in fire history, ecology and people, and the use of interdisciplinary research in addressing savanna-woodland fire management in southern Africa. She has an MSc in conservation biology from the Fitzpatrick Institute of African Ornithology, and a PhD from the Plant Conservation Unit at UCT.
Media tags: fire ecology, savanna–woodland ecology, biodiversity conservation in African developing countries, remote sensing, GIS, rural livelihood sustainability, climate change, social-ecological interactions between climate, land use, people (indigenous groups, NGOs and government)
Contact details: humphrey.glynis@gmail.com
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ART THERAPY
Rozanne Myburgh (Johannesburg) new on the database
Myburgh is an arts therapist specialising in drama therapy, registered through HPCSA. Her research interests are focused on creating safe spaces in communities through the use of the arts. She is the managing director at Lefika La Phodiso, Africa’s first psychoanalytically informed community art counselling training institute.
Media tags: art/drama therapy, community art counselling, mental health, community work, volunteering, arts as therapy, therapeutic arts, personal development
COVID-19: after-school programmes for children in Johannesburg, impact of Covid-19 on mental health (for Johannesburg children, and generally), the impact of Covid-19 on job losses and the resulting impact on access to quality education
Contact details: rozannemyburgh@gmail.com
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