20231025_zondocon2023_speakerbios-37d0b9b3459c3ed1.pdf

This document provides biographical profiles of speakers associated with ZondoCon 2023, featuring a diverse group of South African legal experts, government officials, academics, journalists, and civil society activists. The profiles highlight professional backgrounds in anti-corruption, constitutional law, public finance, and governance, with several individuals having direct ties to the Zondo Commission and state capture investigations.

• The speaker list includes high-ranking South African judicial and government officials, including Justice Raymond Zondo, the Chief Justice of the Republic of South Africa and former Chairperson of the Judicial Commission of Inquiry into allegations of State Capture, Corruption and Fraud in the Public Sector including Organs of State, and Phindile Baleni, the Director-General in the Presidency and Secretary of Cabinet.
• Several speakers hold leadership roles in anti-corruption and investigative bodies, such as Firoz Cachalia, chair of the National Anti-Corruption Advisory Council (NACAC), Advocate Andrea Johnson, Investigating Director at the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA), and Advocate Andy Mothibi, Head of the Special Investigating Unit (SIU).
• The group includes representatives from civil society and advocacy organizations, including Lawson Naidoo of the Council for the Advancement of the South African Constitution (CASAC), Motlatsi Komote of Corruption Watch, and Noncedo Madubedube, General Secretary of Equal Education (EE).
• Academic expertise is represented by professors and researchers from various institutions, including Prof Michael Sachs of the Southern Centre for Inequality Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand, Prof Rehana Cassim of Unisa, and Prof Mbongiseni Buthelezi, Executive Director of PARI and associate professor at the University of Johannesburg.
• The speakers include investigative journalists and media professionals, such as Jeff Wicks of News24, a winner of the Taco Kuiper Award for Investigative journalism, and Carol Paton, a writer for News 24 Business focusing on state-owned companies and public finance.

APA

Public Affairs Research Institute (n.d.). 20231025_zondocon2023_speakerbios-37d0b9b3459c3ed1.pdf. https://pari.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/20231025_ZondoCon2023_SpeakerBios.pdf

Chicago

Public Affairs Research Institute. 20231025_zondocon2023_speakerbios-37d0b9b3459c3ed1.pdf. n.d. https://pari.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/20231025_ZondoCon2023_SpeakerBios.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{publicaffairsresearchinstitutend20231025zondocon2023speakerbios37d0b9b3459c3ed1pdf, author = {{Public Affairs Research Institute}}, title = {{20231025\_zondocon2023\_speakerbios-37d0b9b3459c3ed1.pdf}}, institution = {Public Affairs Research Institute}, url = {https://pari.org.za/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/20231025_ZondoCon2023_SpeakerBios.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }