Lecturers
LECTURERS TYPICALLY INCLUDE:
Kiru Naidoo, Lecturer, ISP Advisor
Kiru Naidoo studied political science and development at the universities of Durban-Westville and Cambridge. He also has expertise in marketing and communications. He has been the director of public affairs at UDW and senior manager for communications in the KwaZulu-Natal provincial government. He has also held positions at the universities of Natal and Durban-Westville, Durban University of Technology, National Research Foundation, and the South Africa-Netherlands Research Programme on Alternatives in Development.
Michael Sutcliffe, PhD, Lecturer, ISP Advisor
Dr. Michael Sutcliffe has an MSc from the University of Natal and a PhD in city planning from Ohio State University. He was appointed chairperson of South Africa’s Demarcation Board in the post-apartheid order by President Mandela and was Durban’s city manager for nine years. He played a significant role in the country’s anti-apartheid struggle and is widely recognized as an influential member of the African National Congress, the ruling party in South Africa.
Prof Mvu Ngcoya, PhD, Lecturer, ISP Advisor
Dr. Mvu Ngcoya is an associate professor in development studies at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN). Prior to joining UKZN, he taught international relations at American University in Washington D.C. for two years, with a particular focus on African politics.
Prof Deevia Bhana, Research Methods Lecturer, IRB member
Deevia Bhana holds the South African Research Chair (SARChI) in Gender and Childhood Sexuality and has built an international reputation recognised for examining how gender and sexuality come to matter in the young life course. Prof Bhana runs the seminar series for Research Methodology in preparation for the Independent Study Project.
Judge Albie Sachs, Guest Lecturer
Albie Sachs began practicing law in the 1950s, as an advocate for people charged under apartheid’s racist laws. Persecuted by security police because of this work, he went into exile in 1966 and taught law for many years in England and Mozambique. During the 1980s, he helped draft the code of conduct and statutes of the African National Congress (ANC). In 1988, he lost an arm and the sight of one eye to a bomb placed in his car by South African security agents. In spite of this, he returned to South Africa in 1990 and, as a member of the Constitutional and National Executive Committees of the ANC, was active in the negotiations that led to South Africa’s first democratic election in 1994. Soon after, he was appointed by President Nelson Mandela to serve on the newly established Constitutional Court. In this role, Justice Sachs was the chief architect of the post-apartheid constitution of 1996. He has authored several books, including The Jail Diary of Albie Sachs (1966) and The Soft Vengeance of a Freedom Fighter (1990), for which he received the Alan Paton Award.
Additional lecturers include:
- Prof Chris Gevers, associate professor and the director of the Centre for Applied Legal Services (CALS). CALS is a human rights advocacy organisation based at the Wits School of law.
- Prof Richard Pithouse, academic and distinguished research fellow at the Global Centre for Advanced Studies. Prof. Pithouse has substantial experience in teaching philosophy, politics and interdisciplinary humanities. His research was in the area of political philosophy and theory with a particular focus on Frantz Fanon, as well as urban studies, politics, and social movements in South Africa.
- David Ntseng on the issue of public housing, service delivery, and the empowerment of the poor in South Africa
- Ebrahim Rassool, politician and former ambassador to the U.S.
- Nonhle Mbuthuma, director of the Madiba Crisis Committee, an organization fighting for environmental rights on the South Coast where mining potential threatens the community.
- Richard Dobson and Charles Mncube on the informal trade sector in South Africa