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Commissioner Tshepo Madlingozi studied law and sociology in South Africa, Cameroon, and the United Kingdom. Before being appointed to the Commission, he was the Director of the Centre for Applied Legal Studies at WITS University and an Associate Professor at the same university where he taught human rights and social justice. He has been a consultant for local organisations and inter-governmental organisations including the Pan-African Parliament and the U.N. Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.
He sat on the boards of several civil society organisations including the boards of the following civil society organizations: the Rural Democracy Trust, the Mining-Affected Communities United in Action/Women-Affected by Mining Action, the Institute for Social Dialogue, the Socio-economic Rights Institute of South Africa, Imbiza: Journal of African Writing, the Centre for Human Rights, the Zimbabwe ExilesmForum, UFS, amandla.mobi, and the Afrika Ikalafe Pluriversity.
He was also a member of the Steering Committee of the African Coalition for Corporate Accountability (ACCA), the Right to Protest Project Coalition, and the Advisory Board of the Health Justice Initiative. For thirteen years (2015-2018), he worked with and for Khulumani Support Group, a 120,000-strong social movement of victims and survivors of Apartheid as National Advocacy Coordinator and later the Chairperson. Between 2021 and 2022, he was appointed Chief Panelist for the South African Human Rights Commission Enquiry into Racial Discrimination and other forms of Discrimination in Advertising.
He is a Visiting Professor at the International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam and a Faculty member of the Vienna Master of Arts in Applied Human Rights. He is a co-editor of the South African Journal on Human Rights. He is a co-editor of Symbol or Substance: Socio-economic Rights in South Africa (Cambridge UP) and a co-editor of Introduction to Law and Legal Skills in South Africa, 2nd Edition (Oxford UP South Africa).
In addition, he has served in a number of senior leadership roles in the bank, including Managing Executive of Retail and Business Banking in KwaZulu-Natal, Head of Market Leadership and Change in Absa Business Bank as well as Regional Executive of Private Bank in the Northern Region. Faisal was also a Managing Director with Barclays Bank Mozambique.
Faisal started his career at Absa in 1996, has over 25 years of banking experience and a solid track record in Retail and Business Banking. His experience spans Public Sector, Small Business, Corporate and Business Banking and Vehicle Finance. As a project lead, he has played a pivotal role in driving key projects across the Group to enable the establishment of Market Leadership in Business Banking.
