Executive Directors
Advocate Tseliso Thipanyane
Executive Directors' Advisor: BSc, LL.B, LL.M (Constitutional litigation) and LL.M (Corporate law) Currently the member of the South African Broadcasting Cooperation Board (SABC). He is a former Chief Executive Officer of the South African Human Rights Commissionand former Chief Executive Officer of the Safer South Africa Foundation. Spent over13 years in the SAHRC as head of research, mainly responsible for the monitoring of economic and social rights and access to information rights, before becoming the chief executive officer. Former researcher on criminal justice at the University of KwaZulu-Natal and former law lecturer at the University of the Western Cape (criminal procedure), Columbia University Law School, New York (African human rights systems), Ramapo College of New Jersey (African politics and Human Rights). Has numerous publications on human rights issues and has presented conference papers in over twenty countries in Africa, Europe, America and Asia.
