Mohamed Motala, Executive Director

Mohamed Motala is a  policy  and research   professional  dedicated to social and economic justice.  He has extensive experience in public policy formulation, management, monitoring and evaluation supported by strong research and writing skills. Having worked at a senior level in both the Public and Development sector Mohamed has developed  strong conceptual,  management and planning skills. He has organisational and working experience ranging from community development to management of national programmes, trade unions, government departments, research and teaching.
 

Debbie Budlender, Research Specialist

Debbie’s background is in economics, sociology and computer programming. She obtained degrees through UCT (BA Economics, MA Industrial Sociology) and Unisa (BSc Computer Science and Mathematics), and has worked predominantly in the fields of gender, labour and economic analysis, sociology of law, education and budget analysis.  While at C A S E she has been seconded to the Women’s National Coalition, the Law, Race & Gender Research Unit of UCT, and to Statistics South Africa as a consultant on gender, labour and other issues.  She is currently working with the Centre for Actuarial Research. Debbie has been a member of C A S E since 1988, and a board member since 2001.

Zenobia Ismail, Project Manager

Zenobia joined case in February 2006 as a Research Project Officer.  Zenobia is the co-author of a leading text on e-commerce in South Africa and has written papers relating to privacy perceptions and concerns in South Africa, the relationship between media content and boy image and the ethics of controversial advertisements.  She has experience in research for both public and private sector clients.  She has been a lecturer in the School of Economic and Business Sciences at Wits University for five years and prior to this she was a senior research executive at Research Surveys. Zenobia joined case in February 2006 as a Research Project Officer.

Leilanie Williams, Researcher

Leilanie recently completed a Masters Degree in Community and Development at the University of Stellenbosch. Her thesis describes the barriers to HIV testing amongst youth males between the ages of 18 and 25 years.  Leilanie joined C A S E in January 2007 as a research intern and is currently working as a researcher.

Lindiwe Madikizela, Project Officer

Lindiwe studies B Soc Sc (University of Durban Westville) and she is currently studying part-time with the University of Witwatersrand, doing her last year in Masters of Public Health (MPH) in the field of Health Measurements. She has worked for the Reproductive Health Research Unit as a research project coordinator. She coordinated a number of small and large scale research projects on HIV/AIDS prevalence, youth behaviour, peer education and VCT.   Lindiwe has also worked for the Population Council where she conducted research on HIV and TB service delivery and integration in a number of government and NGO health facilities in Gauteng, Mpumalanga and the North West provinces. Lindiwe presented her work in posters and oral presentations in a number of national and international conferences. She presented in the International AIDS Conferences in Durban 2000, Barcelona in 2002 and Bangkok in 2004. Lindiwe also presented her work in all the Reproductive Health Research Unit Priorities Conferences since 2001 to 2004. She co-authored a number of publications in peer reviewed journals and research reports.

Yuri Ramkissoon, Project Officer

Yuri studied at the University of KwaZulu-Natal and completed her Masters degree in Environmental Science. Yuri also worked on a project for the St Lucia Wetland Authority, collecting information for the development of tourism brochures and for the IUCN at the 2003 World Parks Congress capturing and analysing conference questionnaires. Yuri joined C A S E in July 2006 and developed a particular interest in applied social research, particularly studies dealing with marginalised groups such as children and women.  She is currently working on various projects, including the Role of Education and Training in the Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labour in South Africa and a Gauteng AIDS Impact Survey. She has previously worked on an Assessment of Child Participation in South African Households and an Evaluation of the Joint Enrichment Projects of the National Youth Service Projects.

Robin Richards, Project Manager

Robin Richards joined CASE in 2003. He obtained a Masters Degree at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. He has worked for a variety of organisations in the public and non-profit sectors, including the School of Development Studies (formerly the Centre for Social and Development Studies (CSDS)) at the University of KwaZulu–Natal.; the Institute of Multiparty Democracy and; the Fort Hare Institute of Social and Economic Research, University of Fort Hare, East London (formerly the Institute of Social and Economic Research, Rhodes, until the East London branch of the Institute was incorporated into the University of Fort Hare). Robin has also been seconded by the United Nations Programme (UNDP) to the United Nations Mission to East Timor (UNAMET). Robin has co-edited a book of youth essays on life in South Africa since the first democratic elections. As a senior researcher at CASE, Robin has served as Project Manager on many studies since joining CASE. His current interests include quality of life, poverty studies; socio-economic surveys and project evaluations. In 2006 Robin was Track Chair of a Session on Quality of Life in Cities at the Seventh International Conference of Quality-of-Life Studies in Grahamstown. He also presented two papers at this conference and in addition, presented a paper on quality of Life in Johannesburg at the XVI World Conference of Sociology, 2006 in Durban. Robin is currently registered for PhD studies at the University of the Free State under the Arid Areas Programme.

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