Between 1994 and 2001, Antony worked in the structures of the newly-established democratic government, focussing on issues relating to crime and policing. This included four years during which, he worked for the Minister for Safety and Security monitoring police performance, and three years at the National Treasury where he was responsible for planning for the budgetary needs of the criminal justice system.

 

Since 2001, Antony has worked as a lecturer in public policy at a graduate school of the University of the Witwatersrand, has been a researcher at two NGOs (the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation and the Institute for Security Studies), and as an independent consultant. In that time, he authored a large number of articles and book chapters in academic and non-academic publications. He is also the author of two books, The Dirty Work of Democracy: A Year on the Streets with the SAPS (which won the 2006 Recht Malan Prize for non-fiction and was short-listed for the Alan Paton Prize) and A Country at War with Itself: South Africa’s Crisis of Crime (published in 2007). Antony has an Honours degree in Politics and a Masters in Economics.

 

Thembi Dladla is a researcher at CDE. She holds a Masters in Economics from the University of Stellenbosch, completed at the University of Amsterdam via an exchange programme. She also holds an Honours in Economics from the University of Cape Town (UCT). She worked as a tutor in the Department of Economics at both the Universities of Cape Town and Stellenbosch during her studies. Her interests are in development economics, the economics of education and public policy.

   

Marco MacFarlane is a research and project coordinator at CDE. He holds an MA in Research Psychology from the University of the Witwatersrand, and two Honours Degrees in Applied Psychology and English Literature. Before joining CDE he was the Head of Research at the South African Institute of Race Relations (SAIRR) and worked on a wide variety of research and policy issues relating to South Africa’s development, including editing the yearly statistical almanac The South Africa Survey. He has worked primarily in the areas of healthcare, social welfare, skills development, poverty, and migration. 

 

Ntokozo Vilakazi is a researcher at CDE. She holds a BA (honours) (Cum Laude) in Political Science and a B.A. in Communications, both from the University of Johannesburg. Before joining CDE on a full-time basis, she worked as an academic tutor and research assistant at the University of Johannesburg’s Department of Politics. Her interests are in development, political economy and democracy.

Tessa Yeowart

Tessa Yeowart is on a short term contract as CDE’s project manager for education. She joined CDE in August 2008 to assist with conceptualizing, designing and implementing a strategic intervention in the schooling sector. Her recent experience comprises almost ten years spent in various operations and planning positions for the organization representing South Africa’s higher education institutions, Higher Education SA (previously the SA Universities Vice-Chancellors Association.) This gave her a solid grounding in higher education policy, programme design and implementation, resource allocation and the day to day management of a medium size organisation. She has also spent time in a senior position at a financial communications firm and has some experience in education policy analysis. Tessa has an MBA from UCT, as well as a BA with honours in Economics and a Higher Diploma in Education from the University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg (now UKZN). Her interests include development issues and economic and social policy.