Doctoral Researchers
Kennedy Chege
Kennedy is a researcher and a PhD student at the MLiA Chair.
Selected recent publications:
K Chege “Designing Local Content Frameworks in the Oil, Gas and Mining sectors in Africa: Principles and Guidelines” MLiA Website contribution, February 2020.
K Chege “OPINION: Challenges to promoting intra-African trade in the petroleum industry in the wake of the AfCFTA Agreement: Africa’s insufficient petroleum refining capacity” MLiA Website contribution, November 2019.
K Chege “COAL vs RENEWABLES: Is the fight against coal as a major source of energy finally being won?” MLiA Website contribution, August 2019.
K Chege “Sovereign Wealth Funds: Are Kenya and Other Developing Countries Ready to Implement Sovereign Wealth Funds as a Means of Promoting Growth and Development and Tackling the Resource Curse?” MLiA Website contribution, June 2019.
K Chege "Designing Local Content Frameworks in the Oil, Gas & Mining Sectors in Africa: Principles & Guidelines" Extractives Hub Extract (March 2020).
K Chege "Gender Justice in the Energy Transition Era: Exploring Gender and Technology in the Extractives Sector”, chapter contribution in the book, Energy Transitions and the Future of the African Energy Sector: Law, Policy and Governance. Published by Springer Nature (in collaboration with Palgrave Macmillan). Available at https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030568481
Policy submissions:
K Chege, Gaopalelwe Mathiba & Prof Hanri Mostert “Written Comments on the Draft Mine Community Resettlement Guidelines, 2019”, January 2020.
Fezeka Ntsanwisi
Fezeka is a researcher and a PhD student at the MLiA Chair.
Gaopalelwe Mathiba
Gaopalelwe is a researcher and PhD student at the MLiA Chair.
Selected recent publications:
G Mathiba "Evictions and Tenure Security in South Africa: A Review of Baron and Others v Claytile (Pty) Ltd and Another (2017)" (2018) 19 ESR Review 11-15.
G Mathiba "Can a Provincial Government under National Intervention Intervene in a Municipality?" (2019) 14 Local Government Bulletin 1-5.
G Mathiba "The Role of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Relation to Social Potection" (2019) 20 ESR Review 25-27.
G Mathiba & K Lefenya "Revitalising the Role of the Auditor-General under the Auspices of the Public Amendment Act 5 of 2018: A Quest for Public Financial Accountability" (2019) 54 Journal of Public Administration 532-545.
Policy submissions:
K Chege, Gaopalelwe Mathiba & Prof Hanri Mostert “Written Comments on the Draft Mine Community Resettlement Guidelines, 2019”, January 2020.
Aysha Lotter
Aysha is a PhD Candidate at the University of Cape Town. She works as a researcher and project manager for two South African Research Chairs (SARChi), the first SARChi: Mineral Law in Africa and the second, is the SARChi: Mineral Beneficiation based in the Department of Chemical Engineering.
Selected recent publications:
A Lotter "Mine(d) Over Matter (part 1): A Marriage of High Theory and Deep Practice in South African Mining" MLiA website contribution, February 2020.
A Lotter "Mine(d) Over Matter (part 2): Restorative Justice in the Mining Industry" MLiA website contribution, February 2020.
A Lotter "Mine(d) Over Matter (part 3): Mining Fibrous Plants" MLiA website contribution, February 2020.
A Lotter "Mine(d) Over Matter (part 4): South African Law and Policy in a Fibrous-Plant Future" MLiA wesbite contribution, February 2020.
A Lotter "Mine(d) Over Matter (part 5): An example of the theory put into practice" MLiA website contribution, February 2020.
Hendrik Schmidt
Hendrik is a Member of Parliament and a PhD student at the MLiA Chair.
Bongani Sayidini
Bongani is a Petroleum Engineer and Regional Manager at the Petroleum Oil and Gas Corporation of South Africa and a PhD student at the MLiA Chair.
Nonkululeko Zondo
Nonkululeko is a candidate attorney at Bowmans and a PhD student at the MLiA Chair.
Selected recent publications:
N Zondo "Roadblocks to Fracking the Karoo: State Gives the Green Light but South African Legislative Landscape is far from Ready" MLiA website contribution, June 2017.
Godknows Mudimu
Godknows is a PhD student at the Chair.
Selected recent publications:
G Mudimu "The missing diamond revenues: A need for transparency and tax reforms in the Zimbabwean Mining Sector" MLiA website contribution, August 2017.
G Mudimu "The Mines and Minerals Amendment Bill and the possibilities for small-scale miners in Zimbabwe" MLiA website contribution, May 2017.
Wafiq Davids
Wafiq is a partner at Davids & Partners and a PhD student at the MLiA Chair.
Leezola Zongwe
Leezola is a PhD student at the MLiA Chair.
Chris Adomako-Kwakye
Chris is a lecturer at Kwame Nkrumah University and a PhD student at the MLiA Chair.
Selected recent publications:
C Adomako-Kwakye "The need for a Legal Regime to Regulate Surrogacy in Ghana", a paper presented at the Law, Medicine and Ethics Conference, 2018, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology, Kumasi.
Kwezi Baffoe Intsiful
Kewzi is a PhD student at the MLiA Chair.
Mabvuto Sakala
Mabvuto is a lecturer at the University of Zambia and a PhD student at the MLiA Chair. He is also a practising lawyer with a focus on natural resource exploitation and environmental protection.
Jacques Jacobs
Jacques is a researcher and a PhD candidate at the MLiA Chair.
Selected recent publications:
H Mostert & PJ Jacobs "The Mandate and Challenges of Land Tenure Security in South Africa" in H Mostert, LCA Verstappen, J Zevenbergen, L van Schalkwyk (eds) Land Law and Governance: African Perspectives on Land Tenure and Title (2017).
TW Bennett & PJ Jacobs "The Spoor Law: An Anachronism or Constitutional Misfit?" (2012) 25 SACJ 213-234.
PJ Jacobs & H Mostert "Boundary Disputes in Africa" in Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law (2008).
Robert Kirunda
Robert is a lecturer at the Makerere University School of Law and a student at the MLiA Chair.
Julie Hassman
Julie is a PhD student at the MLiA Chair.
Korir Singoei
Korir is a PhD student at the MLiA Chair. He is also an international lawyer working as Legal Advisor in the Presidency, Kenya.
Rebecca Pein
Rebecca is a candidate attorney at ENS and a PhD student at the MLiA Chair.
Selected recent publications:
R Pein "The fight against Galamsey: How Ghana’s ban on small-scale mining has discriminated against legal small-scale mining activities" MLiA website contribution, May 2018.
