Leading academic Prof William Gumede has been announced as the chairperson of the multiparty convention set to take place among opposition parties this month.
Gumede, an associate professor at the Wits School of Governance, is a founder of the Democracy Works Foundation and teaches Commonwealth MPs how to manage their parliaments, ensure effective oversight of the executive and government entities, and how to conduct themselves ethically as MPs.
He also runs a course on public policy and economics, including how to put together the national budget for MPs from all political parties in South Africa. The professor is also celebrated for having mediated in several countries' civil and communal conflicts, including that of Eswatini between the king, his allies and opposition parties before the 2013 national elections.
The parties also refer to Gumede having advised several African governments on alternative approaches to hold violent belligerents accountable after civil wars, including that between Christians and Muslims in the Central African Republic and the civil war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Despite his track record abroad, he is said to be influential at home, having been the facilitator in the healing and reparation process between the mine, victims and communities after the“During the anti-apartheid struggle, Prof Gumede held several leadership positions in South African student, civics and trade union movements.
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