Sindiso Mnisi Weeks
Associate Professr of Public Policy of Excluded opulations at School for Global Inclusion and Social Development at University of Massachusetts Boston
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Biography
Sindiso Mnisi Weeks has served as a senior researcher in the Centre for Law and Society at the University of Cape Town (UCT). In her role at UCT, she worked on the Rural Women's Action-Research program. This program combines research, advocacy, and policy work on women, property, and governing authority under customary law. She also taught African Customary Law as a senior lecturer in UCT's Department of Private Law. In 2013-2014, she was a resident scholar at the University of New Hampshire School of Law, where she held a fellowship for the completion of a book.
Mnisi Weeks has published in academic and popular media on customary law, women’s rights, cultural rights, governance, participatory democracy, dispute management, and the South African constitution. As a Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford, she researched the tensions between living customary law(s) and South African state law. Prior to Oxford, she clerked for the Deputy Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa, Dikgang Moseneke. Her current work focuses on the pursuit of justice and human security in indigenous courts by poor women and men living in rural South Africa.
As a young researcher, Mnisi Weeks is highly rated by the National Research Foundation of South Africa. She has been the recipient of a number of awards, including the Women in Science Award for the Development of Rural Women through Science and Technology.
Areas of Expertise
Law and society, human rights, human security, and human development, interface between culture/indigeneity and human rights/state law, gender and women's rights, economic, social, and cultural rights, governance and participatory democracy, deviance, informal justice, and community-based conflict management, political economy, colonial–postcolonial African history, community-based participatory and action-research methods
Degrees
- DPhil, Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford (UK)
- MSt, Legal Research, University of Oxford (UK)
- LLB, Law, University of Cape Town (South Africa)
- BA, Law, Philosophy, and Language, University of Cape Town (South Africa)
Videos
CY Reads | Why I Support CY Reads
Christ, Mandela and Me: South Africa, a Place of Lamentation and Hope
Gender Matters as Power Matters
Access to Justice in Rural South Africa
Feminist Critiques of Mainstream "Solutions"
The Law, Race and Gender unit takes on the "unconstitutionality" of the Traditional Courts Bill
Book Launch: A Theory of African Constitutionalism
Human Rights Due Diligence and Systemic Inequalities | Day 2 | Session 2
Sindiso Mnisi Weeks - Gender, Generations, and Guns Where the State Does Not Govern
'Access to Justice and Human Security: Cultural Contradictions in Rural South Africa'- Book Launch
What Does Freedom Mean for the Youth Today
Dr S Mnisi Weeks speaks ahead of the #NMAL2020
Sindiso_The Braids
Women In Post-Apartheid South Africa
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