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Adv. Roshan Dehal
BProc, LLB
Advocate Dehal is an advocate of the High Court of SA; a human rights and litigation
lawyer in practice for over 35 years, first as an attorney and conveyancer and now as an
advocate; and has been a commissioner of the small claims court since October 1996.
He has served on several boards, councils and committees, including the Estate
Agency Affairs Board (EAAB); South African Council for Social Services Professions
(SACSSP); Africa Institute of SA (AISA); South African Civil Aviation Authority (SACAA);
Iziko Museum; National Film and Video Foundation (NFVF); and the Appeals Board
of the Medical Schemes Council. He is an assessor for the Health Professions Council
of South Africa (HPCSA) and chairperson of several boards, committees and sub-
committees around the world.
He obtained distinctions in several law subjects in his BProc, LLB and LLM degrees
and has received several leading community awards of distinction from centres in
South Africa, India, UK, and Asia. He was the youngest admitted attorney (at age
22 in 1979) and holds several liberation struggle awards for successfully defending/
prosecuting human rights matters, especially in the apartheid days of South Africa
and as a historically disadvantaged lawyer.
Prof. Shireen Hassim
PhD (political science), York University, Toronto, Canada
Prof. Hassim is a professor of political studies and author of
Women’s Organisations
and Democracy in South Africa: Contesting Authority
(2006), which won the 2007
American Political Science Association’s Victoria Shuck Award for best book on
women and politics. She is co-editor of several books, most recently
Go Home or
Die Here: Xenophobia, Violence and the Reinvention of Difference in South Africa
(Wits
University Press, 2009). Current research projects are a history of family and state in
South Africa, and the ways in which bodies are invested as the sites of demarcating
the boundaries of power in post-apartheid South Africa.
She sits on the editorial boards of a number of international journals, including the
International Journal of Feminist Politics, Politics and Gender, African Studies
and the
Journal of Southern African Studies.
She is a member of the Academy of Science of
South Africa (ASSAf ) Standing Committee on Humanities, and the research Advisory
Committee of the United Nations’ flagship report –
Progress of the World’s Women
.
She is international research advisor to the project, Gendering Institutional Change,
based at the University of Manchester; has been a member of the senate of the
University of theWitwatersrand for five years; was elected by senate to the Council
of the University of the Witwatersrand; and is the assistant dean (research) in the
faculty of humanities.