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Team Category: Staff

Roland Mwesigwa Banya

Roland Mwesigwa Banya

Biography

Roland has over a decade of experience as a development finance specialist. He is the lead for Support to Improving the Investment and the Business Environment (SIBE), a European Union (EU) funded initiative seeking to improve business investments in the SADC region.

Roland holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of Cape Town, and an MSc Degree in International Finance and Economic Development from the University of Kent. He also holds a PhD in Development Finance from the University of Cape Town’s Graduate School of Business.

Philani Madletyana

Philani Madletyana

Biography

Philani is responsible for grants management and project learning to inform decision-making for the Trust’s programmes. In his experience of more than 10 years, he has worked with various social justice organizations in South Africa.

Philani holds an MBA degree from Heriot-Watt, a Master of Arts degree in Politics, a Bachelor of Arts degree in International Relations, and an Honours degree in Media Studies from the University of the Witwatersrand. He also holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Entrepreneurship from the University of Pretoria.   

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Martha Hlongwane

Biography

Martha has more 10 years’ experience overseeing workspaces and enabling efficient work operations.

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Serge Ntumba

Biography

With his strong background in accounting, Serge supports project implementation at the Trust. Previously, he worked in the finance department.

He holds a Bachelor of Technology in Financial Information System from the Vaal University of Technology. 

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Shumirai Zizhou

Biography

Shumirai provides research, technical and advocacy assistance liaising with partners to support the strategic objectives of the Trust. She also provides programme and administrative support. She has 5 years’ experience in legal practice and worked in the non-profit sector focused on migration and displacement, child rights governance and poverty, sexual reproductive health rights, and poverty eradication.

She holds an LLB Degree (Honours) from the University of the Witwatersrand, a Postgraduate Qualification in Practical Legal Studies (Cum Laude), from the Kwa-Zulu Natal University. Further she completed a course on “Caring for Children Moving Alone: Protecting, Unaccompanied and Separated Children”, from The University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland.”

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Boitshepo Kubu

Biography

Tshepo performs procurement and administration duties for the operations function at the Trust. He has over 13 years of office management experience working in the non-profit sector.

He holds a National Diploma in Marketing from the Tshwane University of Technology.

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Calvin Mogorosi

Biography

With more than 10 years’ experience working in the NGO sector, Calvin oversees the Trust’s financial records, tax compliance, operations, and payroll.

He holds a Bachelors of Commerce in Accounting and Auditing from North West University.

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Raymond Muchemwa

Biography

Raymond has over 18 years’ experience working in the private and public sectors, with 12 years at a senior managerial level focusing on financial management, strategy development, and implementation. Beyond his responsibility for budgets, expenditures, and cash flow forecasting, his role includes oversight for human resource management and implementing robust financial and IT systems.

Raymond holds a Bachelor of Accounting (Hons) and Master of Accounting from Wits University, and he is a member of the Institute of Risk Management South Africa.

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Christabel Phiri

Biography

Christabel coordinates the participation of civil society organizations in policy dialogue in southern Africa. With more than 15 years’ experience in policy development, strategy and planning, she has worked to build the capacity of civil society groups in the region, focusing on trade and industrialization. Prior to joining the Trust, Christabel worked at Third World Network Africa based in Ghana.

Christabel holds a Master of Philosophy (MPhil) in Economics from the University of Johannesburg, specializing in Industrial Policy, and a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics from the University of Zambia.

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Alice D. Kanengoni

Alice D. Kanengoni is a feminist development practitioner with over 20 years of experience advocating for social justice, gender justice and women’s rights on the African continent. She has served in regional organisations in roles providing strategic leadership, programme design & management, grant-making, advocacy and communications, accountability and learning. Alice has successfully led the design and implementation of a number of power-shifting strategies and interventions towards women’s economic justice, including strategies to support self-organizing movements of domestic workers, women informal and cross-border traders, rural women farmers and young women – among other marginalized groups in Africa. Her research and knowledge generation work has contributed towards shaping Afro-centric discourses on feminist macroeconomics, inclusive health and education among others. She is passionate about feminist and liberatory knowledge management praxis and has contributed to the body of knowledge challenging inequalities and poverty on the African continent. Alice earned tertiary level qualifications in Arts, Media & Communications, Executive & Team Coaching and Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning.