People

Ndimphiwe Shabangu is a development practitioner working for the Coordinating Assembly of NGOS in Eswatini. The Coordinating Assembly of Non-Governmental Organizations or CANGO is a membership-based NGO operating in the Kingdom of Eswatini since 1983. Originally started off as a network of Primary Healthcare providers, CANGO is now the national coordinating body with a membership base of over 70 NGOs.

Mr Shabangu’s focus areas is Coordination and Advocacy.

Dr Mamba is a lecturer in the Department of Geography, Environmental Science and Planning at the University of Eswatini. He has skills and expertise in land and water resources, socio-cultural and developmental research, food security, urban livelihoods, climate change, urban and human geography.

Mamba has carried out research work on climate change and food security issues, agriculture, poverty and urban livelihoods, and environmental related issues.

More about Dr Mamba:

Google scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=quPIZCAAAAAJ&hl=en

Research gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sipho_Mamba/research

Kaone Tlagae is a YALI (Young African Leaders Initiative) fellow, World Literacy Foundation Ambassador, volunteer of Botswana Women Lean In Network and graduate of the African Leadership University in partnership with Glasgow Caledonian University.

Among other things, she is deeply passionate about gender equality and parity and driving financial inclusion for otherwise marginalized women. Her passion dates back to her childhood; at 12, she volunteered with Botswana Family Welfare Association (BOFWA) where her role was central to educating women in rural areas about the various contraceptives and the importance of family planning. She later joined various associations centred around developing the girl child and empowering women such as Girl Guides, Women In Business Association (WIBA), Global Leadership Summit Program, Switch Conference and most recently, MolayaKgosi. She hopes to leverage these experiences to mobilise wealth for marginalised groups, create sustainable and scalable community solutions and use business as a force for social good.

More about Kaone:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/kaonetlagae/

Valminah Mashaba is an Accounting and Finance professional with experience in the telecommunications industry. She is passionate about personal and professional development of women.

As a female professional in the telecommunications industry, Valminah has been exposed to the stereotypes attached to women in the workplace hence her involvement as a member with Botswana Women LeanIn Network. Her contribution to the network includes content creation and research on gender issues. Her interest and passion in girl and women empowerment as well as the mental health of this underrepresented group has led her to strive for a platform where women are encouraged to use their voice, where young girls are taught that it is okay to be ambitious, to be outspoken.

More about Valminah:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/valminah-mashaba-66570579/

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Elang is a lover of art and yet enjoys analytical and critical thinking. Elang is currently working as a lecturer/researcher at the University of Botswana a career she believes is made worthwhile by the fact that it is her responsibility to positively influence future leaders who are the youth; in addition, her belief is that through education one can become a citizen of the world.

By being involved in organisations such as Botswana Women LeanIn Network she aspires to extend her circle of influence to more youth, women and other vulnerable groups.

More about Elang:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/elang-basuhi-b766a916/

Thandeka Ndlela is the current Research Administrator for the Eswatini Hub. She is a researcher and budding academic who holds an MSc degree in Environmental Resources Management, with a Land and Water Resources Management specialization. She has worked for the Eswatini National Trust Commission, an organization tasked with overseeing a number of nature reserves in Eswatini. During this period, Thandeka worked with rural communities, traditional authorities and private land private landowners to strengthen and/or assist in establishing nature conservation areas. She also has technical experience in environmental/developmental projects such as wetland protection, invasive plant species management and sustainable land management. Her goal is to produce scientific information that be reported back to communities so that they might benefit from the insights gained, and that such insights may be converted to practical, community-oriented conservation practices by the people directly involved and affected.

More about Thandeka:

www.linkedin.com/in/thandeka-ndlela-eswatini

Twitter: @ThandekaVNdlela

Dane is a community-oriented environmentalist, researcher, artist and activist working on projects that specifically address food sovereignty, climate justice and creative freedom of expression.

He is also the co-founder and active member of: Yebo! (contemporary art gallery and design studio); ArtReach (community arts NGO); Solidarity Eswatini (mutual aid NGO focused on resilient community development); and Eswatini Urban Gardens (increasing food access and equity through agroecological urban food solutions).

Jo is Professor of Geography in the School of Geography and Sustainable Development at the University of St Andrews in Scotland. She is a feminist political geographer with varied research interests including postcolonialism, health, and critical geopolitics. Much of her early work sought to extend what is considered to be the geopolitical beyond the formal spheres of statecraft to include popular culture and the everyday, and this has continued through my more recent postcolonial work on subaltern geopolitics.

In the last 20 years, she has also worked on environment, gender and health projects in Africa. She has collaborated with local researchers and Bedouin women on a gender and development project in Wadi Allaqi in south-eastern Egypt, and is current working as part of an interdisciplinary team of epidemiologists, vets, modellers and social scientists on a One Health project to evaluate the key drivers of zoonotic disease (those which are transmitted from animals to humans) in northern Tanzania, understand the impacts of these diseases, and develop interventions that will be appropriate for the various affected communities. Together with researchers who use arts-based methodologies she is trying to develop collaborative, participatory approaches to research into environmental and health-based issues.

She has co-edited The Ashgate Research Companion to Critical Geopolitics (2013), Geopolitics: an introductory reader (2014), The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Political Geography (2015), and Imagine a Country (2020).

More about Jo: https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/geography-sustainable-development/people/js314

More about Jo’s One Health research can be found here: http://livestocklivelihoodsandhealth.org/

Jo on Twitter: @ProfJoSharp

Alasdair is Head of Multiplied By: a Creative and Communications agency based in Glasgow. The business supplies brand, web, print and audio-visual services to businesses and organisations globally and uses highly targeted digital communications strategies to help clients attract and retain customers.

With a strong track record in supporting the third and education sectors, Alasdair has focused his efforts in working alongside clients that deliver *good*. That is to say, business that have goals beyond profit and organisations that seek to make a positive contribution to society.

Beyond the Sustainable Futures in Africa, Alasdair has worked with the Centre for Sustainable, Healthy and Learning Cities and Neighbourhoods, Global Ethical Finance Initiative, Glasgow Council for the Voluntary Sector and many other third sector organisations.

More about Alasdair and Multiplied By:

www.multipliedby.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/AlasdairCurrie/

https://www.linkedin.com/company/multipliedby/