Staff

Full Time Staff

Mtinkheni Munthali

Volunteer

Mtinkheni is a volunteer at Women's Net. Originally from malawi but for the past 12 years have lived and studied in Swaziland as well as Mozambique, now she lives in South Africa. She has a degree in Development Studies and an Honours Degree in Public Management and Governance from the university of Johannesburg. She is excited to be part of Womens Net as women's  empowerment is something she is very passionate about!
 

Sally-Jean Shackleton

Sally-Jean Shackleton
Executive Director
sallys [at] womensnet [dot] org [dot] za

Sally-Jean (or Sally) is Women’sNet’s Executive Director. Her work in the gender sector started in 1991 with her involvement in the organisation People Opposing Women Abuse (POWA). She has since worked as a consultant, trainer and materials developer – training court personnel on violence against women, coordinating a manual women women’s rights, and participating in research on intimate femicide. She joined Women'sNet in 2001 after working with the organisation to develop a website on women's human rights.

Lebogang Marishane

Media and Information Manager
lebo [at] womensnet [dot] org [dot] za

Lebogang is an ICT practitioner and is passionate about ICT's and their use for development. She has been a content manager, website mistress, knowledge strategy developer, technology programmer, a communucations manager and is passionate about technology. Lebo is no stranger to Women'sNet- she was an intern in 2001. She loves the bits and bytes that technology offers to empower people and is excited to be part of the Women'sNet team!

Eunice Mwesigwa

Eunice
Office Manager
eunice [at] womensnet [dot] org [dot] za

Eunice has been the Office Manager at Women’sNet since April 2007. Her responsibilities include the development of office procedures, managing human resources records, oversight of the finances and maintaining organisational systems and procedures. Eunice also ensures the smooth running of the administrative and financial aspects of Women’s Net.

Eva Ramokobala

Project Manager (Girls'Net)
girlsnet [at] womensnet [dot] org [dot] za

Eva joined Women'sNet in February 2008 as Project Officer. She is now Project Manager for Girls'Net.  Eva has a BA with Media studies and Political Science as majors from the University of Limpopo were she also worked as a radio presenter for Turf FM. Eva  has a certificate in Telecommunications Regulation, Policy and Management (TPRM) from the Wits Link Centre.  She is believes education is a basic right and that no child should be deprived from it. When talking about the empowerment of women and girls, Eva thinks technology should be a sphere largely considered.  Mo light!

Part Time Staff

Tansy Lam

Web Developer
tansy [at] womensnet [dot] co [dot] za

Tansy is an intern from the Emerging Leaders for Governance and Communication (ELGC) program organised by International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) and supported through Netcorps, Canadian programme funded by CIDA. Born in Edmonton, Tansy spent most of her life in Calgary, although she lived and studied in Hong Kong for 10 years. She received her Bachelor of Science degree in General Mathematics and Computer Science (concentration in Software Engineering) from University of Calgary. She is currently working at Women’sNet as a Web Developer to redesign and revamp Women’sNet and Girls’Net website.

Fatima Bhyat

Fatima
Technical Consultant

Fatima is Women’sNet’s technical consultant. She has been involved with non profitable organisations working within the ICT sector for over 15 years. Her technology related experience comes from the base of having worked at SANGONET where she did user support and onsite installations, and then moved into running trainings for NGOs on various tools, to Email, Web Browsing and building of websites. Later she became the System Administrator and then the manager of the technical Division. She currently is working with the APC under finance, the admin team as well as the technical resource team and WomensNet. Within the WomensNet, she provides remote system administration on Linux sever and technical support and advice to the organisation and staff on various IT related matters.