Bongiwe Mahlangu | Pretoria, South Africa

BA (Hons) Public Administration & Management (UP), BPolSci Political Sciences in Political Studies (UP)

Previous experience

Bongiwe identifies as an African feminist world builder, concerned about the chronic under-resourcing of feminist movements and organising in Africa. With her contributions, she joins a community of practitioners’, academics, institutions and activist working towards transforming philanthropy through feminist systems change. She has spent the last half a decade leveraging her research and writing background to support Intergovernmental Relations work in national government and held research and content development roles in the private sector, and her independent work. At Lorha Nakambe, Bongiwe leverages her skills and passion for experimentation to support feminist philanthropic systems change work by providing a range of writing, research, strategy development and support, facilitation and organisational development interventions for feminist collectives, African feminist philanthropic actors as well as a range of global funders. Bongiwe holds an Honours degree in Public Administration and Management, and a Bachelor of Political Sciences in Political Studies, both obtained at the University of Pretoria. Currently Bongiwe is reading for her Master of Philosophy (MPhil) in Multidisciplinary Human Rights. She is inspired by the intellectual work of Prof Patricia McFadden, Prof Siphokazi Magadla, Prof Sylvia Tamale, Iris Nxumalo- De Smidt, Crystal Simeoni and Ijeoma Umebinyuo, among her long list of brilliant African women scholars/writers.

Academic fields of interest:

Pan-African Feminist Economics, African Feminist Philanthropy, Human Rights, International Political Economy, Women’s and Gender Studies, Languages, Politics, Public Policy

Position prior to the programme

Lead Dreamer at Lorha Nakambe